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56 <p class="lead magick-description">The <a href="http://nextgen.imagemagick.org/api/MagickCore/index.html">MagickCore API</a> is a low-level interface between the C programming language and the ImageMagick image processing libraries and is recommended for wizard-level programmers only. Unlike the <a href="magick-wand.html">MagickWand</a> C API which uses only a few opaque types and accessors, with MagickCore you almost exlusively access the structure members directly. A description of the MagickCore public methods are found here:</p>
59 <li><a href="api/magick.html">Initialize or Destroy the ImageMagick Environment</a></li>
60 <li><a href="api/constitute.html">Constitute an Image</a></li>
61 <li><a href="api/composite.html">Composite an Image</a></li>
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64 <li><a href="api/color.html">Count the Colors in an Image</a></li>
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67 <li><a href="api/distort.html">Image Distortions</a></li>
68 <li><a href="api/layer.html">Dealing with Image Layers</a></li>
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70 <li><a href="api/quantize.html">Reduce the Number of Unique Colors in an Image</a></li>
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72 <li><a href="api/segment.html">Segment an Image with Thresholding Fuzzy c-Means</a></li>
73 <li><a href="api/resize.html">Resize an Image</a></li>
74 <li><a href="api/transform.html">Transform an Image</a></li>
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106 <li><a href="api/monitor.html">Monitor the Progress of an Image Operation</a></li>
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113 <p>After you write your MagickCore program, compile it like this:</p>
116 cc -o core core.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs MagickCore`
119 <p>Note, if your instance of ImageMagick does not support modules but does include support for the WMF image format, you'll need to link with the <a href="magick-wand.html">MagickWand</a> library instead (since it is a dependency of the WMF image format):</p>
122 cc -o core core.c `pkg-config --cflags --libs MagickWand`
125 <p>Set the <code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code> environment variable if ImageMagick is not in your default system path:</p>
128 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig
131 <p>Here is a example program that utilizes the MagickCore API to get you started, <a href="../source/core.c">core.c</a>. It reads a GIF image, creates a thumbnail, and writes it to disk in the PNG image format.</p>
133 <pre class="pre-scrollable">#include <stdio.h>
134 #include <stdlib.h>
135 #include <string.h>
137 #include <magick/MagickCore.h>
139 int main(int argc,char **argv)
155 (void) fprintf(stdout,"Usage: %s image thumbnail\n",argv[0]);
159 Initialize the image info structure and read an image.
161 MagickCoreGenesis(*argv,MagickTrue);
162 exception=AcquireExceptionInfo();
163 image_info=CloneImageInfo((ImageInfo *) NULL);
164 (void) strcpy(image_info->filename,argv[1]);
165 images=ReadImage(image_info,exception);
166 if (exception->severity != UndefinedException)
167 CatchException(exception);
168 if (images == (Image *) NULL)
171 Convert the image to a thumbnail.
173 thumbnails=NewImageList();
174 while ((image=RemoveFirstImageFromList(&images)) != (Image *) NULL)
176 resize_image=ResizeImage(image,106,80,LanczosFilter,1.0,exception);
177 if (resize_image == (Image *) NULL)
178 MagickError(exception->severity,exception->reason,exception->description);
179 (void) AppendImageToList(&thumbnails,resize_image);
183 Write the image thumbnail.
185 (void) strcpy(thumbnails->filename,argv[2]);
186 WriteImage(image_info,thumbnails);
188 Destroy the image thumbnail and exit.
190 thumbnails=DestroyImageList(thumbnails);
191 image_info=DestroyImageInfo(image_info);
192 exception=DestroyExceptionInfo(exception);
193 MagickCoreTerminus();
196 <p><a id="image-view"></a>Now lets perform the same contrast enhancement while taking advantage of our dual or quad-core processing system by running the algorithm in parallel utilizing wand views. The <a href="../source/core/sigmoidal-contrast.c">sigmoidal-contrast.c</a> module reads an image, applies sigmoidal non-linearity contrast control, and writes the result to disk just like the previous contrast enhancement program, but now it does its work in parallel (assumes ImageMagick is built with OpenMP support).</p>
198 <pre class="pre-scrollable">#include <stdio.h>
199 #include <stdlib.h>
201 #include <magick/MagickCore.h>
203 static MagickBooleanType SigmoidalContrast(ImageView *contrast_view,
204 const ssize_t y,const int id,void *context)
206 #define QuantumScale ((MagickRealType) 1.0/(MagickRealType) QuantumRange)
207 #define SigmoidalContrast(x) \
208 (QuantumRange*(1.0/(1+exp(10.0*(0.5-QuantumScale*x)))-0.0066928509)*1.0092503)
222 extent=GetImageViewExtent(contrast_view);
223 pixels=GetImageViewAuthenticPixels(contrast_view);
224 for (x=0; x < (ssize_t) (extent.width-extent.x); x++)
226 SetPixelRed(pixels,RoundToQuantum(SigmoidalContrast(GetPixelRed(pixels)));
227 SetPixelGreen(pixels,RoundToQuantum(SigmoidalContrast(GetPixelGreen(pixels)));
228 SetPixelBlue(pixels,RoundToQuantum(SigmoidalContrast(GetPixelBlue(pixels)));
229 SetPixelOpacity(pixels,RoundToQuantum(SigmoidalContrast(GetPixelOpacity(pixels)));
232 indexes=GetImageViewAuthenticIndexes(contrast_view);
233 if (indexes != (IndexPacket *) NULL)
234 for (x=0; x < (ssize_t) (extent.width-extent.x); x++)
235 SetPixelIndex(indexes+x,RoundToQuantum(SigmoidalContrast(GetPixelIndex(indexes+x))));
239 int main(int argc,char **argv)
241 #define ThrowImageException(image) \
244 CatchException(exception); \
245 if (contrast_image != (Image *) NULL) \
246 contrast_image=DestroyImage(contrast_image); \
249 #define ThrowViewException(view) \
257 description=GetImageViewException(view,&severity); \
258 (void) fprintf(stderr,"%s %s %lu %s\n",GetMagickModule(),description); \
259 description=DestroyString(description); \
280 (void) fprintf(stdout,"Usage: %s image sigmoidal-image\n",argv[0]);
286 MagickCoreGenesis(*argv,MagickTrue);
287 image_info=AcquireImageInfo();
288 (void) CopyMagickString(image_info->filename,argv[1],MaxTextExtent);
289 exception=AcquireExceptionInfo();
290 contrast_image=ReadImage(image_info,exception);
291 if (contrast_image == (Image *) NULL)
292 ThrowImageException(contrast_image);
294 Sigmoidal non-linearity contrast control.
296 contrast_view=NewImageView(contrast_image);
297 if (contrast_view == (ImageView *) NULL)
298 ThrowImageException(contrast_image);
299 status=UpdateImageViewIterator(contrast_view,SigmoidalContrast,(void *) NULL);
300 if (status == MagickFalse)
301 ThrowImageException(contrast_image);
302 contrast_view=DestroyImageView(contrast_view);
304 Write the image then destroy it.
306 status=WriteImages(image_info,contrast_image,argv[2],exception);
307 if (status == MagickFalse)
308 ThrowImageException(contrast_image);
309 contrast_image=DestroyImage(contrast_image);
310 exception=DestroyExceptionInfo(exception);
311 image_info=DestroyImageInfo(image_info);
312 MagickCoreTerminus();
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