The Incredible Convenience of Mathematica Image Processing
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That aside, this isn't really a killer app. It is much easier to adjust an image in the Gimp or Photoshop than it is to do so in Mathematica. If you are doing image processing, it might be nice to have that available in Mathematica, but it is equally easy to transform images in your $FAVORITE_PROGRAMMING_LANGUAGE.
This simply means, that whatever type you can recreate it in other programming environment.
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/amiga-history-4-comm...
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OK, but you could just do that in Photoshop, right?
Oh shush, let’s do something you definitely can’t.
As someone else pointed out, these sort of techniques could be useful for the kinds of matrix manipulations and image analysis that scientists and engineers do. Personally, I'm impressed that Mathematica appears to handle images the same as matrices. That's powerful, and of interest to hackers.
.. which is already "incredibly convenient" for those who are using it.
The example in the article is a typical straw man argument. Photoshop cannot do something, not because it's weak on a technology side. It doesn't do it simply because Photoshop users aren't interested in it as they do a different kind of image processing.
> * "Allowing us to have an intuition .." *
You lost me there, buddy. I spent few years working in the image processing field and let me tell you that the clustering of image fragments by similarity is something that would interest a fraction of a percentage of a researchers in the field. And if his example allowed you to understand what kinds of analysis he is doing, I humbly take my hat off, that's really impressive.
But in the end using Python with the PIL module served my needs better.