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

[Daniel Blezek]

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
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