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Re:GPUImage 2 by coldtea on Monday April 18, 2016 @07:12AM (#11518974)
"Instagram effects"? We've had video (and image) filters for decades before Instagram was even conceived...
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Re:GPUImage 2 by andrewbarba on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:17AM (#11519640)
You missed the point. Try applying those effects in realtime, on an iPhone 4s, to a live video stream coming directly from the camera. It's quite difficult, even with everything that CoreImage provides. GPUImage? It's cake.
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Re:GPUImage 2 by coldtea on Monday April 18, 2016 @11:41AM (#11520774)
Not sure about the 4s specifically, but there are all kinds of apps that do it on the iPhone using the GPU (so, if GPUImage works on 4s, they should too). In fact Apple also provides a built-in one...
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