| Re: Reading 32-bit BMP (with an alpha channel) in IDL [message #70022] |
Tue, 09 March 2010 14:58 |
penteado
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On Mar 9, 7:09 pm, Brian Daniel <Daniels...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I appreciate the ability to display alpha banded images. TVImage is
> extremely useful. However, I was trying to read BMPs with alpha
> channels, and read_bmp.pro just doesn't cut it. I added a case for a
> 32 bit/pixel situation and added a dimension to the readu statement.
> Its a small fix, but why didn't ITTVis put this in read_bmp.pro?
> Alpha channel images are a standard format!
Have you tried iopen? I do not know if it uses an independent
implementation, or just passes that work on to read_bmp.
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| Re: Reading 32-bit BMP (with an alpha channel) in IDL [message #70023 is a reply to message #70022] |
Tue, 09 March 2010 14:09  |
Brian Daniel
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On Mar 9, 2:28 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Brian Daniel writes:
>> I have a set of BMP images I need to read in. They have 4 channels,
>> red, green, blue and alpha. Every commercial image viewer I have can
>> open them, including matlab. Now, I could go to the trouble to
>> convert them to 24-bit or another image format, but why should I
>> change? IDL should be able to read this standard input. Read_bmp.pro
>> explicitly states that it can only read 24-bit. Is there something
>> built-in I'm not seeing? Is there a coyote function that already does
>> it?
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> Here is an article that explains what is happening:
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> http://www.dfanning.com/ip_tips/transparentpng.html
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> TVImage will display these images correctly. :-)
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> Cheers,
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> David
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> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
I appreciate the ability to display alpha banded images. TVImage is
extremely useful. However, I was trying to read BMPs with alpha
channels, and read_bmp.pro just doesn't cut it. I added a case for a
32 bit/pixel situation and added a dimension to the readu statement.
Its a small fix, but why didn't ITTVis put this in read_bmp.pro?
Alpha channel images are a standard format!
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| Re: Reading 32-bit BMP (with an alpha channel) in IDL [message #70026 is a reply to message #70023] |
Tue, 09 March 2010 11:28 |
David Fanning
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Brian Daniel writes:
> I have a set of BMP images I need to read in. They have 4 channels,
> red, green, blue and alpha. Every commercial image viewer I have can
> open them, including matlab. Now, I could go to the trouble to
> convert them to 24-bit or another image format, but why should I
> change? IDL should be able to read this standard input. Read_bmp.pro
> explicitly states that it can only read 24-bit. Is there something
> built-in I'm not seeing? Is there a coyote function that already does
> it?
Here is an article that explains what is happening:
http://www.dfanning.com/ip_tips/transparentpng.html
TVImage will display these images correctly. :-)
Cheers,
David
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David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thue. ("Perhaps thos speakest truth.")
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