Re: Converting Field to gif or jpeg

• To: "David V. Olivier" <dolivier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Converting Field to gif or jpeg
• From: Don Murray <dmurray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:01:58 -0600

David-

"David V. Olivier" wrote:
> 
> I see that the gif adapter facilitates conversion from a gif to a flat
> field.  What about the other direction?  I saw on the mailing list that
> someone was using Display.getImage() and then converting it from there.  Is
> this the most straightforward method?
> 
> The desired image would contain just a 2d representation of the data
> itself, no axis, units, or background.  Any thoughts?

You might also look at visad.util.DataUtility.extractImage
which will create a java.awt.Image from a FlatField of type
((x, y) -> (r, g, b)).  You could then put out to JPEG.  That
would give you just the data.

Don
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    • From: David V. Olivier