Does anyone know to write to an NSGraphicsContext with NSDrawBitmap, or using the NSBitmapImageRep? All I need is the ability to write color data to a given pixel. I know you can draw with NSRectFillListWithColors(), but it’s painfully slow. I’m trying to figure out how to do simple pixel-level image manipulation.
typedef struct _BIRPixel { unsigned char red; unsigned char green; unsigned char blue; unsigned char alpha; } BIRPixel;
void birTest() { int width=100; int height=100; id bir=[[[NSBitmapImageRep alloc] initWithBitmapDataPlanes:nil pixelsWide:width pixelsHigh:height bitsPerSample:8 samplesPerPixel:4 hasAlpha:YES isPlanar:NO colorSpaceName:NSDeviceRGBColorSpace bytesPerRow:width4 bitsPerPixel:84] autorelease]; BIRPixel pixels=(BIRPixel *)[bir bitmapData]; char *bytes=(char *)pixels; memset(bytes, 255, widthheight4); // paints all pixels white int row, column; int rowOffset; // top left corner is painted red for (row=0;row<50;row++) { rowOffset=rowwidth; for (column=0;column<50;column++) { pixels[rowOffset+column].red=255; pixels[rowOffset+column].green=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].blue=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].alpha=255; } } // top right corner is painted green for (row=0;row<50;row++) { rowOffset=rowwidth; for (column=50;column<100;column++) { pixels[rowOffset+column].red=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].green=255; pixels[rowOffset+column].blue=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].alpha=255; } } // bottom left corner is painted blue for (row=50;row<100;row++) { rowOffset=rowwidth; for (column=0;column<50;column++) { pixels[rowOffset+column].red=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].green=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].blue=255; pixels[rowOffset+column].alpha=255; } } // bottom right corner is painted purple for (row=50;row<100;row++) { rowOffset=row*width; for (column=50;column<100;column++) { pixels[rowOffset+column].red=255; pixels[rowOffset+column].green=0; pixels[rowOffset+column].blue=255; pixels[rowOffset+column].alpha=255; } }
id tiff=[bir TIFFRepresentation];
[tiff writeToFile:@"/Users/zoot/temp/bir.tiff" atomically:YES]; }
If you are familiar with C, then you should know how to manipulate bytes without using a struct. But, if you are not familiar with C then I would play with this struct (BIRPixel) until you get a feel for how the byte order works. Basically the sequence of bytes goes RGBARGBARGBA for Red-Green-Blue-Alpha-Red-Green-Blue-Alpha-Red-Green-Blue-Alpha. If you notice, the order of the members of the struct BIRPixel are also Red-Green-Blue-Alpha. Once you get the hang of this byte order you can use a pointer of type (unsigned char *) to manipulate the individual color components.
int r,c; unsigned char redValue, greenValue, blueValue, alphaValue; int rowOffset; unsigned char *bytes=[bir bitmapData];
for (r=0;r<height;r++) { rowOffset=rwidth4; for (c=0;c<width;c++) { *bytes++=redValue; *bytes++=greenValue; *bytes++=blueValue; *bytes++=alphaValue; } }
The bitmap data is rastered in a Z pattern starting with the top row going from left to right and proceeding down each row until the bottom row.
–zootbobbalu
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