Re: alpha blending

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• Subject: Re: alpha blending
• From: Ugo Taddei <p6taug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 09:17:11 +0200

Hi Brad,

Brad Buchsbaum wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to take two FlatFields representing rgba values and combine
> them using alpha composition into a third FlatField?
> 
> e.g. f1(r, g, b, a) + f2(r, g, b, a) --> f3(r, g, b, a) ?
> 
> This could be computed manually, but is there Visad method for doing this
> sort of thing?

Perhaps the method (from visad.DataImpl):

public Data add(Data data)

would do the trick?

That is, f3 = (FlatField) f2.add( f1 );


Cheers,

Ugo

• References:
  • zorder
    • From: Doug Lindholm
  • Re: alpha blending
    • From: Brad Buchsbaum