The Picture to People project

Picture to People is a huge Computer Graphics research/development project. It has been made from scratch and already has over two million lines of code.

The main focus is on free software, innovative graphic tools, easiness for final user and online releases.

Some of the main P2P features concerning Computer Graphics:

• made totally from scratch;
• huge project: everything needs to be coded;
• no CG libraries to make things easy;
• no limitations: everything can be done if it's known how to code it, since low level code can be improved;
• no imports: control of all pieces of code; no "black box" software to use;
• total knowledge: it's not enough to have all source; every source is made for this project and is totally understood;
• can be ported to any object-oriented language, any visual operational system, any hardware: there is no logic outside;
• a trying to make a good conjugation of raster and vector based tools working together;
• creation of real (procedural) Computer Graphics effects;
• release of online tools.

Picture to People Online

The online subproject of Picture to People has been developed to have a simple, easy to use, intuitive and fast interface. The server side of the online part of Picture to People was projected very carefully to be suitable for P2P Computer Graphics libraries. This gives a very direct and efficient comunication between network part and Computer Graphics tools.

The interface was made just using HTML, CSS and Javascript without any kind of automatic code generation during the development. Every single line of Javascript source code, for example, was made directly by human hands. You have here just what is really needed and everything planned to be fast.

The server side layer was made with raw processing of the HTTP protocol. A simple and yet focused network library was created to process P2P requests. This brings a very optimized, powerful and adherent solution for P2P online environment.

As always in Picture to People project, everything in online subproject was made from scratch. After all, the slogan of Picture to People project is:

"Only who makes has true knowledge. Knowledge is control. True power depends on total control. Only who makes from scratch has the real power."

To know a little more about the evolution of Picture to People project, you could like to have a look at its development blog.