Re: [SVG 1.2 draft]: 17.3 Media Interfaces - getPixel()

Chris Lilley wrote:
> On Thursday, July 15, 2004, 2:25:27 PM, Robin wrote:
> RB> It returns an SVGColor object. As far as I can tell, that points to a
> RB> css::RGBColor which in turn does not support the alpha value. I might
> RB> have missed something, but if not I would call that a bug.
> 
> In addition to adding opacity (ideally by fractional geometric coverage)
> don't we need to say what the sampling method is? Otherwise its trivial
> to produce content that will give wildly different results.

You're Mr.Colour so I might be missing something but currently getPixel 
() is defined to work on "binary (pixel-based) images only" (a 
definition which could be improved by dropping the "binary", just in 
case someone adds XPM support) and therefore the x and y are pixels in 
the image's intrinsic pixel-based coordinate system. I believe that the 
motivation for that was that anything else was deemed Too Complex For 
1.2(r).

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Robin Berjon