[Image-SIG] Use of FFT with PIL objects??

[Rob W. W. Hooft]

>>>>> "BK" == Bob Klimek <robert.klimek@grc.nasa.gov> writes:

 >> It would be very convenient to use the FFT routines implemented in
 >> the Numeric package.  I expect I'd have to create a 2D 'array'
 >> object from 'im', unless by great good fortune the Numeric package
 >> is already familiar with Image objects (unlikely I'd guess).  That
 >> suggests I'd need to extract the data from the image object.

 BK> Since I doubt that NumPy understands PIL image format, you'll
 BK> have to convert the image to a linear array of integers and then
 BK> read it into NumPy.

I think it is a better idea to use im.tostring() and the Numpy
fromstring() routines. Twhere is currently no direct connection between
the two packages.

Rob

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