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                      GREYC's Magic for Image Computing

                             ( http://gmic.eu )

                                    2.3.1

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# In a nutshell
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 G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing, distributed
 under the CeCILL licenses (LGPL-like and/or GPL-compatible).
 It provides several different user interfaces to convert/manipulate/filter/
 visualize generic image datasets, ranging from 1d scalar signals to 3d+t
 sequences of multi-spectral volumetric images, hence including 2d color images.

 These user interfaces are:

 1 - A command-line interface 'gmic', to use the G'MIC image processing features
     from a shell. In this setting, G'MIC may be seen as a friendly companion to
     the ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick software suites.

 2 - A small, portable, thread-safe and multi-threaded, C++ image processing
     library 'libgmic', to be linked to third-party applications. Its simple API
     allows programmers to add all G'MIC features in their own software without
     much efforts (a C API is provided as well).

 3 - A plug-in 'gmic_gimp_qt', to bring G'MIC capabilities
     to the image retouching software GIMP. More than 500 filters are already
     available, sorted by category (Artistic, Black & white, Colors, Contours,
     Deformations, Degradations, Details, Film emulation, Frames, Layers,
     Light & shadows, Patterns, Rendering, Repair, Sequences, etc.).

 4 - A web service G'MIC Online, to allow users applying image processing
     algorithms on their images, directly from a web browser.

 5 - A Qt-based interface ZArt, for real-time processing of video streaming
     coming from webcams or video files.

 G'MIC is an open framework: the default script language can be extended with
 custom G'MIC-written commands, defining thus new image available filters or
 effects. By the way, it already contains a substantial set of pre-defined image
 processing algorithms and pipelines (more than 1000).

 G'MIC has been designed with portability in mind, and runs on different
 platforms (Windows, Unix, MacOSX).
 Since 2008, it has been developed in the Image Team of the
 GREYC laboratory, in Caen/France, by permanent researchers working in the field
 of image processing on a daily basis.

# Project Managers and main developers
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  David Tschumperlé  ( http://tschumperle.users.greyc.fr/ )
  Sébastien Fourey   ( https://foureys.users.greyc.fr/ )

  A complete list of contributors is available on the project web page:

                           http://gmic.eu

# Institution
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 GREYC Image / CNRS UMR 6072 / FRANCE

 Team web page: https://www.greyc.fr/image

# License
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 The C++ source code of G'MIC is distributed partly under the CeCILL-C v.1.0
 (LGPL-like) and CeCILL v.2.1 (GPL-compatible) licenses (see file 'COPYING').
 These licenses ( http://www.cecill.info/index.en.html ) have been
 created under the supervision of the three biggest research institutions on
 computer sciences in France:

   - CNRS  ( http://www.cnrs.fr/ )
   - CEA   ( http://www.cea.fr/ )
   - INRIA ( http://www.inria.fr/ )

# More information online
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  - Home page : http://gmic.eu
  - G'MIC Online Service : https://gmicol.greyc.fr

  - Google+ group: https://plus.google.com/117441237982283011318/posts
  - Pixls.us forum: https://discuss.pixls.us/c/software/gmic
  - Flickr forum: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gmic/discuss
  - GimpChat forum: http://gimpchat.com/viewforum.php?f=28

  - Tutorial page: http://gmic.eu/tutorial
  - Reference documentation: http://gmic.eu/reference.shtml
  - G'MIC wiki: https://github.com/dtschump/gmic-community/wiki

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