Task #10796 (new)
Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
Improve tile-based access to PNG files — at Initial Version
Reported by: | mlinkert | Owned by: | mlinkert |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 5.x |
Component: | Bio-Formats | Version: | n.a. |
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Description
Reading a tile from a PNG file currently means reading the entire image and then cropping out the desired rectangle. Now that we're no longer using ImageIO, I think it will be possible to be a little smarter, at least in the case of non-interlaced (and possibly unfiltered?) images.
See for example http://xkcd.com/980/sources/money_huge.png