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backspaces Junior Member Offline Posts: 66	Offscreen Pixels[] Nov 9th, 2006, 6:40pm   I need to be able to analyze the pixels of an (off-screen) image, much the same way we can look at the pixels[] array for the current display. Is there a way to convert a PImage to a pixels[] array?  Or to query the pixels of a PImage via a method call? I suspect createGraphics() may be the solution, but I'm not sure. Thanks!
	Owen -- Mac OS X -- The latest Processing generally.

backspaces Junior Member Offline Posts: 66	Re: Offscreen Pixels[] Reply #1 - Nov 9th, 2006, 6:54pm   Yikes!  I just think I found it: PImage has its own Pixels[] array.  I presume I can just use that.  Cool! Damn, when I read the source and look at all that Processing goes through to do this magic, I'm amazed!
	Owen -- Mac OS X -- The latest Processing generally.