[csjava-developer] PixelGrabber

[Toby D. <tjd...@gm...>]

Over the weekend I learned about Java's PixelGrabber class, which is a way=
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of converting the underlying raster data of an image to an ordinary=20
one-dimensional array of ints. The big advantage of this is that=20
read/writing pixels is apparently much faster than going through the set/ge=
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methdos of the BufferedImage.

So I propose that the next version of TheMatrix implement this PixelGrabber=
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approach, assuming it is faster (this will require writing some performance=
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tests).

Toby
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Dr. Toby Donaldson
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University (Surrey)