2012/3/16 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>

Hey Tony

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:

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Here's an example plugin for using skimage's canny edge detector:

https://github.com/tonysyu/skloupe/blob/master/skloupe/plugins/edgedetector....

Very cool! I also like the styled slider.

The reason I asked about the repo is because I definitely want some of this functionality to be available in skimage (a good viewer, editor, etc.). You are, of course, welcome to create a loupe repo under the scikits-image org (I think you have the necessary permissions); I just want to think about how we can integrate this into the main package most efficiently without introducing a dependency (and preferably avoiding the pain of submodules).

Stéfan

I agree: some of this functionality should be moved into skimage. I would, however, like to keep whatever's moved to be fairly small---maybe something that can fit into a single file. (I really don't think having a subdirectory in the io-plugins directory would be pretty.) My plan is to play around with the code for awhile before deciding which parts should be moved directly into skimage. And I'll move this into scikits-image org as soon as I know what name to put it under. I'm not sure how I feel about `skloupe`---as always there's the pronunciation issue. `skoupe`... that's a stretch. `sciloupe`? Based on pypi, `loupe` is available (it turns out there's a django-loupe project), but then there's the branding issue. `loupepy` or `louppy` (pyloupe is taken)? Too cutesy, maybe. `pypeye` (python picture eyer---that's not a word). Some bikeshedding <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bikeshedding> would actually be welcome here. -Tony