Module org.hdfgroup.object
Package hdf.object.h4

Class H4GRImage

Object
hdf.object.HObject
hdf.object.Dataset
hdf.object.ScalarDS
hdf.object.h4.H4GRImage
All Implemented Interfaces:
DataFormat, MetaDataContainer, Serializable
public class H4GRImage extends ScalarDS implements MetaDataContainer
H4GRImage describes an HDF4 general raster(GR) image and operations performed on the GR image. An HDF4 raster image is a two-dimension array of pixel values. Every GR data set must contain the following components: image array, name, pixel type, and dimensions. The name, dimensions, and pixel type must be supplied by the user at the time the GR data set is defined. An image array is a two-dimensional array of pixels. Each element in an image array corresponds to one pixel and each pixel can consist of a number of color component values or pixel components, e.g., Red-Green-Blue or RGB, Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black or CMYK, etc. Pixel components can be represented by different methods (8-bit lookup table or 24-bit direct representation) and may have different data types. The data type of pixel components and the number of components in each pixel are collectively known as the pixel type. How to Select a Subset Dataset defines APIs for reading, writing and subsetting a dataset. No function is defined to select a subset of a data array. The selection is done in an implicit way. Function calls to dimension information such as getSelectedDims() return an array of dimension values, which is a reference to the array in the dataset object. Changes of the array outside the dataset object directly change the values of the array in the dataset object. It is like pointers in C. The following is an example of how to make a subset. In the example, the dataset is a 4-dimension with size of [200][100][50][10], i.e. dims[0]=200; dims[1]=100; dims[2]=50; dims[3]=10;
We want to select every other data point in dims[1] and dims[2] 
     int rank = dataset.getRank();   // number of dimensions of the dataset
     long[] dims = dataset.getDims(); // the dimension sizes of the dataset
     long[] selected = dataset.getSelectedDims(); // the selected size of the dataet
     long[] start = dataset.getStartDims(); // the offset of the selection
     long[] stride = dataset.getStride(); // the stride of the dataset
     int[]  selectedIndex = dataset.getSelectedIndex(); // the selected dimensions for display

     // select dim1 and dim2 as 2D data for display, and slice through dim0
     selectedIndex[0] = 1;
     selectedIndex[1] = 2;
     selectedIndex[1] = 0;

     // reset the selection arrays
     for (int i=0; i<rank; i++) {
         start[i] = 0;
         selected[i] = 1;
         stride[i] = 1;
    }

    // set stride to 2 on dim1 and dim2 so that every other data point is selected.
    stride[1] = 2;
    stride[2] = 2;

    // set the selection size of dim1 and dim2
    selected[1] = dims[1]/stride[1];
    selected[2] = dims[1]/stride[2];

    // when dataset.read() is called, the slection above will be used since
    // the dimension arrays are passed by reference. Changes of these arrays
    // outside the dataset object directly change the values of these array
    // in the dataset object.
Version:
1.1 9/4/2007
Author:
Peter X. Cao
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