[Insight-developers] Bug in ImageFileWriter?

[Joshua Cates]

Oops, for the last line read: "...although I *don't* think streaming is
currently handled in the writer."  Too much coffee,

Josh

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 Josh Cates
 School of Computer Science
 University of Utah
 Email: cates@sci.utah.edu
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On Tue, 21 May 2002, Joshua Cates wrote:

> Hello,
>
> During some debugging, I noticed that ImageFileWriter uses the
> LargestPossibleRegion of its input for image size, then passes the buffer
> pointer to the ImageIO class for writing.  This is only valid when
> BufferedRegion is equivalent to LargestPossibleRegion, which is not
> guaranteed.
>
> This brings up other issues: which region is the appropriate region to
> write?  Given that filters in the pipeline process only their
> RequestedRegions, shouldn't the writers write the RequestedRegion and not
> the BufferedRegion?  If the file writer is supposed to handle streaming,
> then I agree the LargestPossibleRegion is the correct region, although I
> think streaming is currently handled in the writer.
>
> Josh.
>
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>  University of Utah
>  Email: cates@sci.utah.edu
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