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

[Jim Miller]

I am envisioning different PixelContainer types. For contiguous memory scenarios, the container could still have a GetBufferPointer() or some other method for wrapping preallocated blocks of memory.

Jim

On Oct 5, 2010, at 4:53 PM, Daniel Blezek wrote:

> Won't removing GetBufferPointer() make it much more difficult to interface
> with VTK and other external systems?  I'd hate to have to make a copy of my
> images every time I go in and out of ITK...
> 
> 
> On 10/5/10 3:43 PM, "Bill Lorensen" <bill.lorensen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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Jim Miller
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