This directory contains an implementation of mir.misc.WedbImage that uses
JMagick for image manipulation as an alternative to Sun's JAI ( Java 
Advanced Imaging). JMagick is the java interface to good'ol ImageMagick.
This code is for JMagick-5.33. You need to dowload JMagick from the ImageMagick
site.

There are no plans to replace the JAI implementation with this. JAI is better
maintained (the last JMagick release was November 2000) and is more powerful.

You absolutely need to have the Jmagick shared library in your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
var for it to work.

The only advantage it has over JAI is that it is open source (AFAIK, the JAI
source is not available, please correct me if I'm wrong). 

Also, it provides a native implementation (the c shared library) for all 
platforms as one has the source to compile it... However, my testing shows
that the pure Java JAI is *faster* than the native JMagick/ImageMagick, at
least on the PPC architecture (G3) tested against JAI 1.1.1.

-mh <heckmann@hbe.ca>
2001.10.19