http://simonwillison.net/2017-11-14T21:42:12+00:00Simon Willison2017-11-14T21:42:12+00:002017-11-14T21:42:12+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/14/pillow-simd/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://github.com/uploadcare/pillow-simd">pillow-simd</a></strong></p> A “friendly fork” of the Python Pillow image library that takes advantage of SIMD operations on certain CPUs to obtain massive speed-ups—they claim 16 to 40 times faster than ImageMagick. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://blog.discordapp.com/how-discord-resizes-150-million-images-every-day-with-go-and-c-c9e98731c65d">How Discord Resizes 150 Million Images Every Day with Go and C++</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pil">pil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a></p>

2010-03-15T16:06:57+00:002010-03-15T16:06:57+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/Mar/15/cgarveys/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://cgarvey.ie/blog/archive/2010/01/27/installing-pil-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-for-use-in-google-app-engine/">Installing PIL on Mac OS X Snow Leopard for use in Google App Engine</a></strong></p> PIL installation instructions that actually work... the ’export CC=“gcc -arch i386”’ incantation in particular. Make sure you run setup.py install using the Python version that the App Engine dev tools are using (I ran “sudo /usr/bin/python2.6 setup.py install”). <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/macos">macos</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pil">pil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/snowleopard">snowleopard</a></p>

2009-01-17T21:48:49+00:002009-01-17T21:48:49+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Jan/17/ico/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/1287/">Load Windows ICO files</a></strong></p> Apparently PIL has trouble with the most recent versions of the windows .ico format (Vista now embeds PNG images in them)—this clever function deals with the differences and gives back a PIL Image object. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ico">ico</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/images">images</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pil">pil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/png">png</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/vista">vista</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/windows">windows</a></p>

2007-11-27T19:17:30+00:002007-11-27T19:17:30+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/27/thumbnail/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://code.google.com/p/sorl-thumbnail/">sorl-thumbnail</a></strong></p> This looks like a decent attempt at a generic Django thumbnailing service, but I’m always wary of code that allows URL hackers to create large numbers of files that will be cached to disk. UPDATE: My mistake, thumbnail creation can only be caused by template authors. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/django">django</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/pil">pil</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/python">python</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/thumbnails">thumbnails</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/urls">urls</a></p>