I'm going to be doing some image processing in which I need to have rasters that contain information other than color. For example, I'm writing a loader for an image that has an extra plane containing height info. The raw height information is stored as a floating point values while the color info is regular RGB bytes.
I'm wondering what the best way to deal with all this is, to keep things logical and fast. Should I try to cram everything into a single databuffer and create a custom BufferedImage? Should I create separate databuffers for my unique data types and treat the color data as a regular BufferedImage so that it will gain the benefits of automatic acceleration? Should I be considering using the JAI? Mark McKay =========================================================================== To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff JAVA2D-INTEREST". For general help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "help".
