Chapter 7. Image Manipulation Without Filtering

Image filters usually get top billing when it comes to image manipulation, but there is a great deal that can be done witfhout them. The AWT provides facilities for scaling and flipping images, grabbing pixels from the screen, constructing an image from an array of bits, and even performing animations, all without an image filter in sight. In a testament to the flexibility provided by the AWT's image package, everything that was done with filters in the “Image Filtering” chapter beginning can be implemented in another fashion without implementing an image ...

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