photon
⚡ Rust/WebAssembly image processing library (by silvia-odwyer)
menyoki
Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line 🌱 🏞️ (by orhun)
| photon | menyoki | |
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| 10 | 13 | |
| 3,134 | 650 | |
| 2.3% | 0.3% | |
| 6.8 | 3.5 | |
| about 1 month ago | 7 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
photon
Posts with mentions or reviews of photon.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-04-10.
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Photon: Rust/WebAssembly image processing library faster than VIPs and PIL
That's some pretty aggressive editorializing in the title. The linked page doesn't once use "faster", "VIPS" or "PIL".
The page does link to benchmarks [0] but Photon isn't the clear victor. It's slower on the PNG benchmark but faster on the JPG benchmark. There are no benchmarks for PIL.
It's an interesting project but the differentiating factor is more portability and security than speed. WASM means that this can be run in a nice sandbox where its ability to harm the system is drastically reduced.
[0]: https://github.com/silvia-odwyer/photon/wiki/Benchmarks
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Predictions for the Future of Programming Future in 2030
Photon is a high-performance image processing library in WebAssembly that runs both natively and on the web.
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Dynamic watermarking on the JVM
Image Processing in WebAssembly
- Show HN: OS Image processing API running on edge functions using Rust and WASM
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Building an online image compressor
My first implementation was based on photon_rs, a Rust based web assembly library for image processing. It worked pretty well, but it was slower than OP website. Without digging much it seems logical since photon isn’t optimized for performance.
- Rust/WebAssembly image processing library
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Image Compression Library
What you describe reminded me of photon. Check out the website. If there isn't an overlap of functionality then you can definitely integrate it into your own site.
- Off my chest: When are some of you browser devs gonna give us native image scaling? This is the best we got ATM.
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Monitoring UX in Single Page Applications
For the image, you are able to either use your webcam to take a photo, or upload a photo of your own before moving onto the filters. Image filtering is included in most image manipulation libraries. I had used ImageMagick before, but had a terrible time with it. I wanted to find a better way to do Instagram-like filtering. I came across Photon, a high performance image processing library written in Rust and can be compiled to WebAssembly, and there was already a React demo so it was easy to integrate. Once you choose the filter you want, you move onto the decoration stage.
menyoki
Posts with mentions or reviews of menyoki.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-31.
- Menyoki 1.7 is out
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menyoki - perform image operations on the command-line! (now with WebP support)
Release notes: changelog
🌱 menyoki is a tool that helps you perform image operations (ImageOps) completely on the command-line!
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Tutorial series: real-time LaTeX lecture notes using (Neo)Vim
I use screenkey to show the keys I'm typing and either menyoki or plain ffmpeg with x11grab to record the screen.
- Menyoki 1.6 introduces support for the OpenEXR format
- Menyoki 1.5.6 to view pictures directly in your terminal
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rustypaste: A minimal file upload/pastebin service
(uses menyoki and slop)
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orhun/menyoki: Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line 🌱 🏞️
orhun/menyoki: Screen{shot,cast} and perform ImageOps on the command line 🌱 🏞️
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menyoki v1.5.1 is released - it now supports viewing image files from the terminal!
https://github.com/orhun/menyoki#supported-platforms https://github.com/orhun/menyoki/issues/2
What are some alternatives?
When comparing photon and menyoki you can also consider the following projects:
WASM-ImageMagick - Webassembly compilation of https://github.com/ImageMagick/ImageMagick & samples
starfetch - Display constellations in your terminal
image - Encoding and decoding images in Rust
rustypaste - A minimal file upload/pastebin service.
imageproc - An advanced image processing library for Rust.
t-rec-rs - Blazingly fast terminal recorder that generates animated gif images for the web written in rust