Operator Reference
overpaint_gray (Operator)
overpaint_gray
— Overpaint the gray values of an image.
Signature
overpaint_gray(ImageDestination, ImageSource : : : )
Description
overpaint_gray
copies the gray values of the image given
in ImageSource
into the image in
ImageDestination
. Only the gray values of the domain of
ImageSource
are copied (see reduce_domain
).
If you do not want to modify ImageDestination
itself, you can use
the operator paint_gray
, which returns the result in a newly created
image.
Attention
overpaint_gray
modifies the content of an already existing image
(ImageDestination
). Besides, even other image objects may be
affected: For example, if you created ImageDestination
via
copy_obj
from another image object (or vice versa),
overpaint_gray
will also modify the image matrix of this other image
object. Therefore, overpaint_gray
should only be used to overpaint
newly created image objects. Typical operators for this task are, e.g.,
gen_image_const
(creates a new image with a specified size),
gen_image_proto
(creates an image with the size of a specified
prototype image) or copy_image
(creates an image as the copy of
a specified image).
Execution Information
- Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
- Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
- Processed without parallelization.
This operator modifies the state of the following input parameter:
During execution of this operator, access to the value of this parameter must be synchronized if it is used across multiple threads.
Parameters
ImageDestination
(input_object, state is modified) (multichannel-)image →
object (byte / direction / cyclic / int1 / int2 / uint2 / int4 / real / complex / vector_field)
Input image to be painted over.
ImageSource
(input_object) (multichannel-)image →
object (byte / direction / cyclic / int1 / int2 / uint2 / int4 / real / complex / vector_field)
Input image containing the desired gray values.
Example (HDevelop)
* Copy a circular part of the image 'monkey' into a new image (New1): read_image(Image,'monkey') gen_circle(Circle,200,200,150) reduce_domain(Image,Circle,Mask) * New image with black (0) background gen_image_proto(Image,New1,0.0) * Copy a part of the image 'monkey' into New1 overpaint_gray(New1,Mask)
Result
overpaint_gray
returns 2 (
H_MSG_TRUE)
if all parameters are
correct. If necessary, an exception is raised.
Possible Predecessors
read_image
,
gen_image_const
,
gen_image_proto
Alternatives
get_image_pointer1
,
paint_gray
,
set_grayval
,
copy_image
See also
paint_region
,
overpaint_region
Module
Foundation