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Documentation

AKTIVE's developer documentation explains the internals of the package, especially its operator specification DSL and templating system.

• Operator Specifications DSL
• Generated Code
• Data Structures for Image Pipelines
• Batch Processor - AKTIVE's foundation for horizontal threading.
• Connected Components

The internals are somewhat inspired by VIPS.

In the sense that AKTIVE's runtime enables the same thing that VIPS does, the multi-threaded, concurrent handling of multiple input regions without having to load the entirety of the inputs into memory.

The detailed structures are very different from VIPS however, for several reasons:

• This is a Tcl extension, linked to and using Tcl API functions and structures.

• There is no support for multiple integer types, etc. for pixel values. The only type used internally is double. All other types are cast to/from this on reading/writing.