[SciPy-User] ROI, the sequel
Christopher Barker
Chris.Barker at noaa.gov
Tue Aug 3 22:26:03 EDT 2010
Zachary Pincus wrote:
> The task you want to accomplish is called "polygon rasterization", and
> I have long looked for a simple python (or better, portable C that I
> could use from anywhere) module that does this well. (Ideally with
> optional antialiasing.) I really haven't found much... any graphics
> toolkit (e.g. for throwing up a GUI) can be convinced to rasterize to
> a memory buffer, which can be converted to a numpy array, but it's not
> simple or particularly portable.
I've used PIL for that -- much less overhead than a GUI toolkit, if you
don't need a GUI.
-Chris
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