Crate goo

goo

Library for encoding and decoding Elegoo’s .goo file format. A binary is also included for inspecting and debugging the sliced goo files, with the option to dump the layers as png images. This is a stand alone version of this crate taken from my mslicer project, its an open source slicer for masked stereolithography printers.

If you want to learn more about the goo format, make sure you read the official format spec. Some things aren’t mentioned in the spec like how everything is big-endian, the checksum is just the negated sum of all bytes in the payload, and the image data encoding specification is hard to follow, so look at my implementation. Also, if you use ImHex, I have created a pattern file (goo.hexpat) that may be helpful.

Examples

For some real world examples, check out the following links to my mslicer project source code:

• Slicing a triangular mesh into a layer
• Decoding a sliced file for a layer preview

Encoding an Image

Because thousands of very high resolution images take many tens of gigabytes to store, goo files use a run length encoding mechanism as a simple form of compression. In order to encode an image into a goo layer, you therefore must separate it into runs first. In this example ill just add alternating rows of white and black.

It is important to note that you must define a value for every pixel. This is because on my printer at least the buffer that each layer is decoded into is uninitialized memory. So if the last run doesn’t fill the buffer, the printer will just print whatever was in the buffer before which just makes a huge mess.

use goo::{LayerEncoder, LayerDecoder, Run};

let size = (11520, 5102);
let mut out = LayerEncoder::new();

for y in 0..size.1 {
    let color = if y % 2 == 0 { 255 } else { 0 };
    out.add_run(size.0, color);
}

let (bytes, checksum) = out.finish();

let decoder = LayerDecoder::new(&bytes);
assert_eq!(checksum, decoder.checksum());

for run in decoder {
    println!("{:?}", run);
}

Decoding to Images

This example is a simplified version of the included cli to inspect sliced goo files. Note that setting each pixel individually is not very fast, but it was enough for a debugging tool.

use std::fs;

use goo::{GooFile, LayerDecoder, Run};
use image::RgbImage;

let raw_goo = fs::read("input.goo")?;
let goo = GooFile::deserialize(&raw_goo)?;
println!("{:#?}", goo.header);

for (i, layer) in goo.layers.iter().enumerate() {
    let decoder = LayerDecoder::new(&layer.data);
    let mut pixel = 0;

    if layer.checksum != decoder.checksum() {
        eprintln!("WARN: Checksum mismatch for layer {}", i);
    }

    let mut image = RgbImage::new(
        goo.header.x_resolution as u32,
        goo.header.y_resolution as u32,
    );

    for Run { length, value } in decoder {
        let color = image::Rgb([value, value, value]);
        for _ in 0..length {
            let x = pixel % goo.header.x_resolution as u32;
            let y = pixel / goo.header.x_resolution as u32;

            image.put_pixel(x, y, color);
            pixel += 1;
        }
    }

    image.save(format!("layer_{:03}.png", i))?;
}

Re-exports

pub use misc::Run;

Modules

misc

Random types.

serde

Encoders and decoders for arbitrary binary data.

slice_config

Simplified configuration for slicing a model.

Structs

GooFile

A .goo file.

HeaderInfo

The header of a .goo file.

LayerDecoder

Decodes a layer from the binary .goo layer format.

LayerEncoder

Encodes a layer into the binary .goo layer format.

PreviewImage

A preview image.