Image processing - in windows?

[Alasdair]

Hi there,

I'm experimenting with alternatives to the expensive Matlab for image
processing teaching. Octave and its image package look good - but is
this package installable under windows? That is, is there a windows
installer which includes imageMagick?

Thanks,
-A.

[David Bateman]

Post by Alasdair
Hi there,
I'm experimenting with alternatives to the expensive Matlab for image
processing teaching. Octave and its image package look good - but is
this package installable under windows? That is, is there a windows
installer which includes imageMagick?

Maybe the cygwin 2.1.73 one does, or the cygwin/mingw 2.9.15 binaries at

http://www.geocities.jp/tmoctwin/

might have it though though the cygwin version of this is compiled with
a non standard version of g++ and so be careful with this if you have
another version of cygwin installed. However the msvc 2.9.15 binary from
octave-forge only has libpng and libjpeg and not imagemagick, You only
need imagemagick if you are dealing with file types other than png/jpeg,
if you aren't then the MSVC binary from octave-forge is probably the
recommended version for you. If you really need imagemagick in the MSVC
binary send an e-mail to ***@octave.org, Michael who packaged this
binary is generally pretty helpful and might consider adding it..

D.