Thank you very much!
Your information was spot on.
Kind of like priming the pump for me.

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 12:52 AM, Sherlock, Ric
<[email protected]>wrote:

> > From: Jonathan Lettvin
> >
> > It is not clear that 'image3' is cross platform like 'platimg'.
> > If switching to platimg is preferable, please show conversion from RGB
> > plane to R G B planes.
>
> Hi Jonathon,
> image3 is crossplatform - it installs & uses a library of image functions
> to work with images - libimage3.dll, libimage3.so or libimage3.dylib
> depending on OS.
>
> platimg is also crossplatform but uses image manipulation frameworks native
> on each platform.
>
>   load 'media/image3 media/platimg'
>   fn1=: jpath '~addons/image3/hy_fly_di.png'
>   img1=: read_image fn1  NB. read image using image3
>   img2=: readimg fn1  NB. read same image using platimg
>   img2 -: img1
> 0
>   $img1
> 880 880 3  NB. R G B planes
>   $img2
> 880 880    NB. RGB plane
>
> If you decide to use platimg it contains a utility to convert from R G B
> planes to RGB plane - you want to do the reverse
>
>   img2 -: rgbmat_pplatimg_ img1
> 1
>
>   rgbmat_pplatimg_
> 3 : 0
>  'empty data' assert 0<#y
>  'rank error' assert 3>:#$y
>  while. 2 > #$y do. y=. ,:y end.
>  if. 3=#$y do.
>    assert 3 e. $y
>    y=. 256#.(|:~ (i.3) A.~ _1 + 2 ^ 2 - 3 i.~$) y
>  end.
>  y bOR 24 bSH 16bff    NB. opacity
> )
>
> The key line that does the conversion is:
>   y=. 256#.(|:~ (i.3) A.~ _1 + 2 ^ 2 - 3 i.~$) y
>
> You need to work out how to do the reverse.
>
> The following is the same expression using explicit (rather than tacit)
> notation which you may find easier to understand.
>  $ 256#. img1 |:~ 0 1 2 A.~ _1 + 2 ^ 2 - 3 i.~ $img1
> 880 880
>
> It might be worth checking out #:
>
> Hope that is of some use:
> Regards,
> Ric
>
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