I want to load an image directly into an array of "color" datatype.

The way I am doing this implies on displaying the image in the screen and then loading the pixels array, then copying it to another array, then clearing the screen with background(), because I don't want the image to really be seen.

The bad thing is that it clears the entire screen, and for my project this really screws everything up. And yet there must be a easier way to do it directly. I searched the reference but couldn't find anything that loads an image to an array, instead of a PImage object.

thanks

Yup, you don't have to display an image to use its pixels[] array.

Code:

 for (int i = 0; i < number_of_logos; i++) {
    // fill logo_array;
    String nr = str(i);

    logo_array[i] = loadImage("logo_"+nr+".gif");
    logo_array[i].loadPixels();

    // analyzing pixels 
    for (int pix = 0; pix < logo_array[i].pixels.length; pix++) {

	int r = int(red(logo_array[i].pixels[pix])); 
	int g = int(green(logo_array[i].pixels[pix]));
	int b = int(blue(logo_array[i].pixels[pix]));
	int a = int(alpha(logo_array[i].pixels[pix]));
    }
}