Crate image_canvas

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A color-accurate software frame buffer.

Please note, color is a work-in-progress with spotty support. See all locations marked with FIXME(color): for progress. See FIXME(perf) for known suboptimal performance.

Separately, planar support is also a work-in-progress. See FIXME(planar) for progress.

Usage

Creating a simple RgbA frame buffer is as a easy as:

  1. Specifying a texel with the right depth and channels
  2. Defining the layout, with width and height
  3. Allocating the frame utilizing the layout
use image_canvas::Canvas;
use image_canvas::layout::{CanvasLayout, SampleParts, Texel};

// Define what type of color we want to store...
let texel = Texel::new_u8(SampleParts::RgbA);
// and which dimensions to use, chooses a stride for us.
let layout = CanvasLayout::with_texel(&texel, 32, 32)?;

let frame = Canvas::new(layout);

Converting to a different color is also possible:

  1. Explicitly assign a fitting Color to source and target
  2. Call the conversion method.
use image_canvas::Canvas;
use image_canvas::color::Color;
use image_canvas::layout::{CanvasLayout, SampleParts, Texel};

let layout = CanvasLayout::with_texel(&Texel::new_u8(SampleParts::Lab), 32, 32)?;
let mut from = Canvas::new(layout.clone());
from.set_color(Color::Oklab)?;

let layout = CanvasLayout::with_texel(&Texel::new_u8(SampleParts::Rgb), 32, 32)?;
let mut into = Canvas::new(layout);
into.set_color(Color::SRGB)?;

// … omitted: some pixel initialization
from.convert(&mut into);

// Now read the sRGB frame, e.g. to initialize an HTTP canvas
into.as_bytes();

Modules

canvas
color

Putting it all together with a buffer type.

layout

The layout implementation, builders, descriptors. Defines layout and buffer of our images.

Structs

Canvas

A byte buffer with dynamic color contents.

Plane

A byte buffer containing a single plane.