Currently we can only read images in a specific format, but writing them is also important.
A possibility is to abstract this away into a ImageWriter or ImageFile abstract class, where a subclass per image format exists. An instance can then be made to write to an arbitrary file or just return a ubyte[].
Another option is to separate the different image formats into separate, but very similar APIs (much like image loading), possibly with a common metadata format. This would mean we could also supply metadata alongside loading images.
BenjaminSchaaf
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8 years ago
Currently we can only read images in a specific format, but writing them is also important.
A possibility is to abstract this away into a
ImageWriterorImageFileabstract class, where a subclass per image format exists. An instance can then be made to write to an arbitrary file or just return aubyte[].Another option is to separate the different image formats into separate, but very similar APIs (much like image loading), possibly with a common metadata format. This would mean we could also supply metadata alongside loading images.