ImageStreams ============ Motivation ---------- Some time ago I had a project where I rendered something to a high quality buffer, which I wanted to export as a png. I used libpng++ for that, the downside was that this library allocated the image again (in a different format). But the only thing I wanted to do is convert my format to another format (pixel by pixel), so this allocation seemed redundant. That's why I wanted a image stream library. Features -------- * Output streams for bmp, png and jpg image files * Grayscale and color * Low memory usage (because it streams) * Easy to use Usage ----- ```C++ png::gray_ostream image(1024, 768, "test.png"); for(int y = 0; y < 768; ++y){ for(int x = 0; x < 1024; ++x){ image << png::gray_ostream::pixel(some_generator(x,y)); } } // done, image is automatically saved (with RAII) ``` There are more examples in the main.cpp file. Dependencies ------------ For the png format libpng is required. For the jpg format libjpeg or libjpeg-turbo is required. The bmp format does not depend on anything, so you can output images without other libraries :D. TODO ---- * Make output iterators * Input streams (plus iterators) * Add alpha support (where possible) * Some interface for parameters (eg. jpg quality) * Add appropriate license * Really make it a library (ie. restructure directories)