[Insight-developers] Proposal: refactoring of image class hierarchy in ITK v4

[Bill Lorensen]

Dan,

Jim Miller, the architect of the itkImage classes admits that exposing
GetBufferPointer() was a mistake. This can be corrected in itkV4.

Bill


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Dan Mueller <dan.muel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> Not sure if the community wants to include/refactor the image classes
> proposed here
>    http://www.insight-journal.org/browse/publication/646
> namely
>    SliceContinguousImage
>    SingleBitBinaryImage
> which would derive from RegularImageBase in your proposed hierarchy.
>
> You have done a comprehensive analysis of where spacing is used; the
> addition of the above classes would also require an analysis of the
> use of GetBufferPointer(), which will not fall out as easy as
> spacing...
>
> Cheers, Dan
>
> On 5 October 2010 18:12, Cory Quammen <cquammen at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I've drafted a proposal for refactoring the image class hierarchy in
>> ITK v4, which can be found here:
>>
>> http://www.itk.org/Wiki/ITK_Release_4/Image_Class_Hierarchy_Refactoring
>>
>> Please feel free to modify the wiki page to address things I've
>> overlooked, suggest nomenclature improvements, or correct things I
>> have gotten wrong.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Cory
>>
>> --
>> Cory Quammen
>> Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and Manipulation (CISMM)
>> Department of Computer Science
>> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>> http://www.cs.unc.edu/~cquammen
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