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                        GREYC's Magic Image Converter

                       ( http://gmic.sourceforge.net/ )

                                    1.4.8.0

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# Summary
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 G'MIC stands for GREYC's Magic Image Converter. This project aims to :

 * Define a minimal but powerful script language (G'MIC) dedicated to the
   design of image processing pipelines.
 * Provide an interpreter of this language (in C++), distributed as an
   open-source module/library embeddable in third-party applications.
 * Propose two binary tools embedding this interpreter :

   - The command-line executable gmic to use the G'MIC framework from a
     shell.
   - The interactive plug-in gmic_gimp to bring G'MIC capabilities to the
     image retouching software GIMP.

 G'MIC is focused on the design of complex pipelines for converting,
 manipulating, filtering and visualizing generic 1d/2d/3d multi-spectral image
 datasets. Of course, it is able to manage color images, but also more complex
 data as image sequences or 3d volumetric datasets.

 G'MIC is an open framework : it is possible to extend the proposed default
 language with custom G'MIC-written commands, defining thus new image filters or
 effects. By the way, it already contains a substantial set of pre-defined image
 processing algorithms.

 G'MIC has been designed with portability in mind and runs on different
 platforms (Windows, Unix, MacOSX). It is distributed under the CeCILL license
 (GPL-compatible). 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 Manager
#----------------

  David Tschumperlé  ( http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/~dtschump/ )

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

                       http://gmic.sourceforge.net

# Institution
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 GREYC Image / CNRS UMR 6072 / FRANCE

 Team web page : http://www.greyc.ensicaen.fr/EquipeImage/

# Licenses
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 The C++ source code of G'MIC for Gimp is distributed under
 the CECILL v.2.0 license (file 'Licence_CeCILL_V2-en.txt').
 This License is a Free-Software license, compatible with the GPL
 (using those files in a distributed closed-source project is then forbidden).

 The CeCiLL v.2.0 license ( 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/ )

# How to install the GIMP plug-in
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  GIMP (http://www.gimp.org) is an open-source painting and image retouching
  software which can be extended with additional 'plug-ins'.
  G'MIC provides such a plug-in, named 'gmic_gimp'. To install the G'MIC
  plug-in for GIMP, you have to copy the file 'gmic_gimp' (Unix) or
  'gmic_gimp.exe' (Windows) to the plug-in folder of your GIMP installation.

  This folder is usually located at :

  - on Unix : '$HOME/.gimp-2.x/plug-ins/' (for local installation),
              or 'usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/' (for global installation).

  - on Windows : 'C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.x\lib\gimp\2.0\plugins\'
                 (for global installation).

  - on MacOSX : '$HOME/Library/Application\ Support/Gimp/plug-ins/'
                (for installation from GimponOSX).

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