2008.10.31 17:10 "[Tiff] Data ordering for planar config separate", by Richard Nolde

2008.10.31 17:10 "[Tiff] Data ordering for planar config separate", by Richard Nolde

I'm updating tiffcrop (my extended version of tiffcp) to support images of arbitrary bit depth and I'm looking for documentation on the actual layout of bit planes in strips for files with multiple strips and multiple samples per pixel and how this affects the current routines to read and write images using the scanline oriented routines. I managed to get my code working for copying images of any bit depth from images with planar config == contig to planar config = contig and to planar config = separate and now I am trying to add support for reading images with planar config = separate and bit depth != a multiple of 8 bits.

Tiffcp works for reading images with planar config == separate only if the bits per pixel are a multiple of 8 bits. The current code that merges data from separate planes into a single buffer assumes byte sized samples and it loops through each scanline of the image for each sample before moving to the next sample. I'm trying to determine if images that contain multiple strips for each sample can be read by interleaving the reads from each sample within a loop for each row of the image or whether that violates the random access prohibition for compressed data. I'd be reading sequentially within each plane, but jumping between planes for successive reads. The only other alternative is to read each plane into a separate buffer and then combine the values into the combined buffer which will increase the memory requirement during the read phase.

eg
for (row = 0; row < length, row++)
  {
   read scanline 1 for sample 1 into buff1
   read scanline 1 for sample 2 into buff2
   read scanline 1 for sample 3 into buff3

   for (column = 0; column < width; column++)
      packdata from buff1[column], buff2[column], buff3[column] into
combinedbuff[column]
  }

The tiffdump of my 32 bit per sample image below indicates that the
strips are being written RRR, GGG, BBB
tiffdump /tmp/tiger-rgb-strip-planar-32.tiff

/tmp/tiger-rgb-strip-planar-32.tiff:
Magic: 0x4949 <little-endian> Version: 0x2a
Directory 0: offset 66584 (0x10418) next 0 (0)
ImageWidth (256) SHORT (3) 1<73>
ImageLength (257) SHORT (3) 1<76>
BitsPerSample (258) SHORT (3) 3<32 32 32>
Compression (259) SHORT (3) 1<1>
Photometric (262) SHORT (3) 1<2>
DocumentName (269) ASCII (2) 30<tiger-rgb-strip-planar-3 ...>
ImageDescription (270) ASCII (2) 53< Image generated by GPL ...>
StripOffsets (273) LONG (4) 9<8 8184 16360 22200 30376 38552 44392 52568
60744>
Orientation (274) SHORT (3) 1<1>
SamplesPerPixel (277) SHORT (3) 1<3>
RowsPerStrip (278) SHORT (3) 1<28>
StripByteCounts (279) LONG (4) 9<8176 8176 5840 8176 8176 5840 8176 8176
5840>

XResolution (282) RATIONAL (5) 1<72>
YResolution (283) RATIONAL (5) 1<72>
PlanarConfig (284) SHORT (3) 1<2>
ResolutionUnit (296) SHORT (3) 1<1>
PageNumber (297) SHORT (3) 2<1 0>
Software (305) ASCII (2) 65<GraphicsMagick 1.3 unrel ...>
SampleFormat (339) SHORT (3) 3<1 1 1>