Core Image and downloading images from the web

Is it possible to have core image create a layer using a url from the web. I know this is possible with the morguefile library but can it work with the web library for instance - cant get it to work at the moment.

Hi Brendan,

Please download the latest version of the Core Image library. I've added a canvas.layer_bytes() command that creates a layer from an image data string (instead of a filename).

So you can do:

web = ximport("web")
image_data = web.download("http://nodebox.net/code/g/header.jpg")
 
coreimage = ximport("coreimage")
canvas = coreimage.canvas(150, 150)
canvas.layer_bytes(image_data, x=-190)
canvas.draw()

awesome!