EXQUIRES

EXQUIRES - Evaluative and eXtensible QUantitative Image Re-Enlargement Suite

Documentation & Instructions

Please visit: http://exquires.rivetsforbreakfast.com

Basic Installation Instructions

EXQUIRES can be installed from PyPI using pip:

pip install -U exquires

or download the source distribution from PyPI, unarchive, and run:

python setup.py install

Detailed Installation Instructions

These instructions are for Debian/Ubuntu Linux. For other platforms, the setup is generally the same, with the exception of installing system dependencies.

Installing ImageMagick 7 alpha from source

- install dependencies on Debian/Ubuntu:

 sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick++-dev

- download and untar the ImageMagick 7 alpha source:

  wget http://www.imagemagick.org/download/alpha/ImageMagick.tar.gz
 tar xvfz ImageMagick.tar.gz

- configure, compile and install ImageMagick:

  cd ImageMagick-7.0.0-0
  ./configure CFLAGS="-fopenmp -fomit-frame-pointer -O2 -Wall -march=native -pthread" \
 CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pthread"
  make
  sudo make install

- configure the dynamic linker run-time bindings:

 sudo ldconfig /usr/local/lib

- (optional) ensure that the correct version is now installed:

 identify -version
 pkg-config --modversion ImageMagick

Installing EXQUIRES

- install dependencies:

 sudo apt-get install python-pip python-configobj python-numpy python-vipscc libvips-tools

- install EXQUIRES from PyPI using pip:

 sudo pip install -U exquires

Installing latest EXQUIRES dev branch from git repo

pip install -e git+http://github.com/aturcotte/exquires.git#egg=exquires

Usage Overview

- Use exquires-new to create a new project file
- Modify the project file to suit your needs
- Use exquires-run to compute the image difference data
- Use exquires-update to compute only the new data after editing the project file
 Use exquires-report to print tables of aggregated data

Requirements:

• Python