imagine

Goals

• To provide image format decoders for various image formats:
  • Decoders should be possible to use without imagine doing any allocation (the user provides any necessary buffers).
  • Decoders should be simple to use when imagine is allowed to allocate for you. Functions to "just get me the RGBA8 pixels", and things like that.
• To provide image format encoders for various image formats:
  • Depending on format, a low-compression or no-compression encoder will likely be available even without imagine being allowed to allocate.
  • Depending on format, a good compressor will be available when imagine is allowed to allocate.

Status

• png and bmp can both be decoded properly without imagine allocating. The "simple" API for doing so is not yet developed. This means that currently you need quite a bit of knowledge about the details of each format to actually decode an image. See the demo example if you want to try and understand how things work (though the demo doesn't yet handle all cases either...).
• Changes are expected to break things in upcoming versions! We're 0.0.z for a reason.

There's many places for improvement, file PRs if you like!