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Re: pixel coordinates of a line [message #25544 is a reply to message #25543]

Thu, 28 June 2001 05:43

Alex Schuster
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Registered: February 1997

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Marc Schellens wrote:

> I want to extract pixels along a line.
> I know start and endpoint (ie. I draw the line in top of the
> image).
> How to get the pixel values? Do I have to do it 'by hand'?

Good question. I don't know about such a function in IDL, but I think
there should be a routine for that.

What about this:
Your line runs from (x1,y1) to (x2,y2), the image has a size of
dimx*dimy. Let's create a thin, one pixel wide polygon along this line:
index = polyfillv( [x1,x2,x2+1,x1+1], [y1,y2,y2,y1], dimx, dimy )
(This assumes that |x2-x1| lt |y2-y1|).
Your pixel values are image[index] then. Well, nearly.

Another method would be drawing a real line via PLOTS (preferably in the
Z buffer), use TVRD() to get this screen part, use WHERE() to get the
indices of this line, and again image[index] is the information you
seek.

But let's wait a little for other responses, I'm pretty sure J.D. will
come up with another idea involving HISTOGRAM().

Alex
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		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: marc schellens[1] on Fri, 29 June 2001 01:45
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: Craig Markwardt on Thu, 28 June 2001 08:10
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: david[2] on Thu, 28 June 2001 07:42
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: tam on Thu, 28 June 2001 06:33
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: Alex Schuster on Thu, 28 June 2001 05:43
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: marc schellens[1] on Wed, 27 June 2001 23:35
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: david[2] on Fri, 29 June 2001 06:53
		Re: pixel coordinates of a line By: Craig Markwardt on Fri, 29 June 2001 06:22

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