C# operator overloading, where is my +=?

November 27, 2006 at 10:02 am | In C#, Programming | 24 Comments

Coming from a C++ background, I never understood why they left out operator overloading in Java. Sure it can lead to obscure code in the hands of incompetent programmers, but I guess the same goes with cars and incompetent drivers. That can (and does) cause some problems, but I’ve never heard of people proposing to ban all cars so that this relatively small group doesn’t cause any harm any more. Continue reading C# operator overloading, where is my +=?…

Finally coding again

November 16, 2006 at 8:09 am | In GIMP | 9 Comments

After spending far too much time on the Free Internet Chess Server I finally picked up coding GIMP# again. The main goal is to have a next release before the end of the year. This release will hopefully support 40 % of all Photoshop action files. Furthermore I started porting the abandoned Colorize plug-in. The functionality of this plug-in is described as: “In our approach an artist only needs to annotate the image with a few color scribbles, and the indicated colors are automatically propagated in both space and time to produce a fully colorized image or sequence.” For example the following picture

Before

is converted to:

After

It’s quite a CPU intensive operation, but most of the work is done in the UMFPACK library so I don’t expect much difference between the C and C# version of this plug-in.

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