Re: why would i need planes for

mh_de_ruiter · ‎01-20-2005

why should (and what is it?) 'planes' for ?

are planes layer ? of different images ?

or is plane 1 .. the reds

plane 2 the green

and plane 3 the blue ?

i do not understand

if i want to work with a 32 bits image with alpha channel

what do i need to use with imalloc ?

with using CreateDIBSection, i'll never have any plane

(i'm not english but dutch, and i looked everywhere, but i just don't get the idea of plane)

please someone explain,

friendly greetings,

Menno de Ruiter

Vladimir_Dudnik · ‎01-22-2005

Hi,

you know, multi-channels images can be represented by different ways. In pixel-interleaved representation each pixel's color values are adjacent in memory. For 4 channel 4x3 image it look like this

c0c1c2c3 c0c1c2c3 c0c1c2c3 c0c1c2c3

whereas for plan-interleaved images each color values are grouped into different arrays. For example, for 4 channel 4x3 image:

c0c0c0c0

c1c1c1c1

c2c2c2c2

c3c3c3c3

Hope, this help.

Regards,

Vladimir

mh_de_ruiter · ‎01-23-2005

ah, ok,

so, like typical cyan magenta etc. stuff.. i use 4planes for output/sereration etc. ok..

Is there anypreferred used method for a 'normal' RGB & Alpha images (like an BMP with alpha channel or tga).. is this the 8u_AC4 ? or does this have a maximum or 256 colors (for each pixel) ? or does this have because there are 3 rgb channels of each 8 bits thus a full 24 bits 16 million color image ?

this is where i get confused... does 8u_ means it holds 8 bits on each color/C(hannel).. or do i need 32s_AC4 ? or is this a extreme way of producing extreme billinos of collors ?

is 8u_C3 being used for a 'normal' rgb 25 bits color bitmap ?

or a 32s_C1 (or 32s_C3) ?

Friendly Regards,

Menno de Ruiter