What is a PNIImage?

[Shaba1]

I see this a lot in the API docs. But I do not see any where is it explained what exactly this is.

[Shaba1]

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[drwr]

Have you seen this API page in particular?

From the page:

Conceptually, a PNMImage is a two-dimensional array of xels, which are the PNM-defined generic pixel type. Each xel may have a red, green, and blue component, or (if the image is grayscale) a gray component. The image may be read in, the individual xels manipulated, and written out again, or a black image may be constructed from scratch.

That is to say, a PNMImage is an in-memory image, such as you might read from or write to a .png, .jpg, .or .tif file (for instance).

David

[Shaba1]

Thanks drwr. I do recall seeing that some where in one o the reading of the manual that I did. It was one of those things I read and mentally I put it aside because it did not seem important at the time.