I'm just passing by to show you an almost-static build of G'MIC. You will have 3d support without depending on modern graphics cards and you will have a powerful image processing from a scientific-grade framework.
You can compile the source code of G'MIC, you need to modified the Makefile to only embed the TIFF, JPG and PNG static libraries to the G'MIC build, and if you are using Core and have no X support, you can disable the X11 flags in the Make file.
This is my T42 disk less laptop with 512Mb of ram.
Thank you Tiny Core and G'MIC developers!