I need help installing pypng in Python 3.3

[icgwh at tagyourself.com]

On Monday, October 29, 2012 3:48:09 PM UTC+1, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> On 10/29/2012 06:39 AM, icgwh at tagyourself.com wrote:
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> > That's very kind of you but I don't think it would be particularly fitted to my needs. The program I'm trying to code creates an image as an 2D array of "pixels" which is defined by RGBA value. My program needs to access and modifies every component of every pixels in the image following a set of rules, kind of like the game of life, only more complex.
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> > In fact I only need a library to "push" this array of pixels in a displayable format for the GUI and in PNG format to write the image to disk. I don't need to do any fancy stuff with the image, just being able to display and write it.
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> Then, actually, what I am suggesting was *almost* perfect.
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> To do transparency, you need to write the portable any map (PAM) formation.
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> Simply print a text header to a file which says:
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> P7
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> WIDTH 10
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> HEIGHT 10
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> DEPTH 4
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> MAXVAL 255
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> TUPLTYPE RGB_ALPHA
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> ENDHDR
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> And then dump your 2D array to that same file.
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> A very quick example in 17 lines of code:
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> io = open( "anyname.pam","w")
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> x,y = 10,10
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> gray=(128,128,128,255) # R,G,B,A value
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> picture = [ [ gray ] * x ] * y # Make a blank gray canvas 2D array
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> # Do whatever you want to the 2D picture array here!
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> io.write( "P7\nWIDTH %d\nHEIGHT %d\nDEPTH 4\nMAXVAL 255\nTUPLTYPE 
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> RGB_ALPHA\nENDHDR\n" % (x,y) )
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> for yi in xrange( y ):
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>      for xi in xrange( x ):
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>          pixel = picture[yi][xi]
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>          io.write( chr(pixel[0]) ) # R value
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>          io.write( chr(pixel[1]) ) # G value
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>          io.write( chr(pixel[2]) ) # B value
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>          io.write( chr(pixel[3]) ) # A value
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>      io.flush()
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> io.close()
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> And that's it.  You may of course make this more efficient -- I'm just 
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> showing it this way for clarity.
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> Many programs can read PAM directly; but for those that can't you can 
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> use nettools, or imagemagick, to convert it to PNG.

That's really interesting! Thank you so much! Never heard of PAM before... I  will try that!