Heman Images

All functions with the heman_image_ prefix are meant for creating empty images, freeing memory, or examining image contents.

Images are simply arrays of floats. By default, the value type is float, but this can be overriden by setting the HEMAN_FLOAT macro to double. By design, integer-typed images are not allowed, although heman provides some conversion utilities (see Import / Export).

Each image has a specified number of bands, which is usually 1 (height maps, distance fields) or 3 (colors, normal maps).

heman_image

Encapsulates a flat array of floats and its dimensions. The struct definition is not public, so clients must refer to it using a pointer.

Creating and Destroying

// Allocate a floating-point image with dimensions width x height x nbands.
heman_image* heman_image_create(int width, int height, int nbands);

// Obtain image properties.
void heman_image_info(heman_image*, int* width, int* height, int* nbands);

// Free memory for a image.
void heman_image_destroy(heman_image*);

Examining Texels

// Peek at the stored texel values.
float* heman_image_data(heman_image*);

// Peek at the given texel value.
float* heman_image_texel(heman_image*, int x, int y);

// Find a reasonable value for the given normalized texture coord.
void heman_image_sample(heman_image*, float u, float v, float* result);