Documentation
The libvips page has a bullet-point overview of the features. We have the following detailed guides:
- API documentation
- Various Hello-World programs
- vipsdisp-tiny, a tiny demo program that displays a VIPS image pipeline in a window.
- The news section of the website has posts about using vips and the development of the system.
- https://github.com/libvips/libvips and https://github.com/libvips/nip2 : All of the sourcecode, and the build systems.
Here are some quick guides to introduce https://github.com/libvips/nip2. These guides are part of the nip2 manual: click Help / Contents to view the guide while using the program.
Quick interface tour : Runs quickly though some easy stuff to show how the interface works.
Infrared reflectogram mosaic tour : Explains how to use nip2 to build reflectogram mosaics.
Nerd tour : Goes into some detail about the insides of nip2 and how to program your own widgets.
The Examples page summarises the example workspaces that come with nip2. Several of the HOWTO guides are worked examples.
The following full guides are on-line:
nip2 Users' Guide : This is an online copy of the documentation included with the program. We have the same thing formatted as PDF.
NIP2 Beginners Guide : The beginners guide has now been added directly to the wiki here.
Consider referencing one of these in your publications if you use VIPS/nip --- it helps us keep it going.