Camille Bissuel: Mikado, a "Future tool" for image manipulation – LGM 2013
Channel: Libre Graphics Meeting
Date: 10/08/2014

Mikado, a "Future tool" for image manipulation with graphs and nodes based on Tempi and GEGL
Camille Bissuel, Cedric Gémy, Alexandre Quessy
http://code.sat.qc.ca/tempi

"Mikado is a temporary project name for an image manipulation program through a graphs and nodes interface. Most of the time image editing requires little creative skill, but a lot of technical processing. Today Computer graphics designers spend a lot of their professional time at mechanical tasks like cropping, re-sizing, optimize weight or change colorspace, and have no complete tool to reduce this time. If you know some code, maybe scripting is a way, but in most case you're reduced to repeat a same task again and again with your favourite image manipulation program. On the other hand, to be able to manage an image though the steps of its editing, seeing the history of its creation while creating it is a direction we want to explore. 
With Mikado we want to try building a node and graphs interface which allow us to create half-automated scenarios of image editing : Node and graphs seems complex at first glance, but are a very powerful way to draw nonlinear scenarios (graphs), with multiples inputs and outputs, giving us great freedom. In the long run such a tool could be extended to other medias, for example to generate live video contents for public events, or to produce music. 
Mikado is an idea by Cédric Gémy and Alexandre Quessy."