Imagemagick v7 is much faster than OilyPNG or VIPS for creating images, cropping them and montaging i.e. collaging them
Pontifications
- Forgot to mention 2 days ago in How I made Art of Where Tights from Berlin photos
- Imagemagick aka magick version 7 even on a “slow” ARM64 processor is much faster at cropping and montaging images (probably because it’s in C/C++) than ruby solutions like VIPS and OilyPNG/ChunkyPNG. See Did you catch the bug in yesterday’s vips code? I’ve coded an oily_png version that is at least twice as fast!
- Extra bonus about using magick is that you don’t have to write code. You just have to master its arcane syntax :-) which isn’t that bad!