java.lang.Object
org.apache.commons.imaging.formats.tiff.photometricinterpreters.AbstractPhotometricInterpreter
org.apache.commons.imaging.formats.tiff.photometricinterpreters.floatingpoint.PhotometricInterpreterFloat

Implements a custom photometric interpreter that can be supplied by applications in order to render Java images from real-valued TIFF data products. Most TIFF files include a specification for a "photometric interpreter" that implements logic for transforming the raw data in a TIFF file to a rendered image. But the TIFF standard does not include a specification for a photometric interpreter that can be used for rendering floating-point data. TIFF files are sometimes used to specify non-image data as a floating-point raster. This approach is particularly common in GeoTIFF files (TIFF files that contain tags for supporting geospatial reference metadata for Geographic Information Systems). Because of the limits of the stock photometric interpreters, most floating-point TIFF files to not produce useful images.

This class allows an Apache Commons implementation to construct and specify a custom photometric interpreter when reading from a TIFF file. Applications may supply their own palette that maps real-valued data to specified colors.

This class provides two constructors:

  1. A simple constructor to support gray scales
  2. A constructor to support a color palette (with potential interpolation)

To use this class, an application must access the TIFF file using the low-level, TIFF-specific API provided by the Apache Commons Imaging library.

  • Constructor Details

    • PhotometricInterpreterFloat

      public PhotometricInterpreterFloat(float valueBlack, float valueWhite)
      Constructs a photometric interpreter that will produce a gray scale linearly distributed across the RGB color space for values in the range valueBlack to valueWhite. Note that the two values may be given in either ascending order or descending order, but they must not be equal. Infinite values will not result in proper numerical computations.
      Parameters:
      valueBlack - the value associated with the dark side of the gray scale
      valueWhite - the value associated with the light side of the gray scale
    • PhotometricInterpreterFloat

      Constructs a photometric interpreter that will use the specified palette to assign colors to floating-point values.

      Although there is no prohibition against using palette entries with overlapping ranges, the behavior of such specifications is undefined and subject to change in the future. Therefore, it is not recommended. The exception in the use of single-value palette entries which may be used to override the specifications for ranges.

      Parameters:
      paletteEntries - a valid, non-empty list of palette entries
  • Method Details

    • getMaxFound

      public float getMaxFound()
      Gets the maximum value found while rendering the image
      Returns:
      if data was processed, a valid value; otherwise, Negative Infinity
    • getMaxXY

      public int[] getMaxXY()
      Gets the coordinates (x,y) at which the maximum value was identified during processing
      Returns:
      a valid array of length 2.
    • getMeanFound

      public float getMeanFound()
      Gets the mean of the values found while processing
      Returns:
      if data was processed, a valid mean value; otherwise, a zero.
    • getMinFound

      public float getMinFound()
      Gets the minimum value found while rendering the image
      Returns:
      if data was processed, a valid value; otherwise, Positive Infinity
    • getMinXY

      public int[] getMinXY()
      Gets the coordinates (x,y) at which the minimum value was identified during processing
      Returns:
      a valid array of length 2.
    • interpretPixel

      public void interpretPixel(ImageBuilder imageBuilder, int[] samples, int x, int y) throws ImagingException, IOException
      Specified by:
      interpretPixel in class AbstractPhotometricInterpreter
      Throws:
      ImagingException
      IOException
    • mapValueToArgb

      public int mapValueToArgb(float f)
      Provides a method for mapping a pixel value to an integer (ARGB) value. This method is not defined for the standard photometric interpreters and is provided as a convenience to applications that are processing data outside the standard TIFF image-reading modules.
      Parameters:
      f - the floating point value to be mapped to an ARGB value
      Returns:
      a valid ARGB value, or zero if no palette specification covers the input value.