Chapter 4. Immediate Mode Imaging Model

IN THIS CHAPTER

  • Push Imaging Model

  • Pixel Storage and Conversion

  • Immediate Mode Imaging Model

Before discussing the immediate mode imaging model, it is important to understand the older, push imaging model. It is from the limitations of this model that the immediate mode model was created, just as the limitations of the immediate mode model led to the creation of the Java advanced imaging (JAI) API discussed in Chapter 6, “Java Advanced Imaging.” But just as the limitations of one model led to the creation of another, each model is built on the functionality of the one before, so understanding the push model is important to understanding the immediate mode model just as understanding the immediate mode model ...

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