[Tutor] Raw image display in a GUI window

Alex Hunsley lard at tardis.ed.ac.uk
Wed Nov 9 00:43:21 CET 2005


Alex Hunsley wrote:

> Marcin Komorowski wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I want to use Python to do some experimentation with graphic 
>> processing/manipulation, and I am looking for a way to be able to 
>> manipulate individual pixels of the image, as well as display it in a 
>> GUI.  Ideal image representation would be something of the form of a 
>> two-dimensional array of tuples, each tuple containing the Red, Green 
>> and Blue components.
>>
>> I have looked at Tk and Tkinter, and there is a PhotoImage class that 
>> can define an image which can than be displayed in a Canvas widget, 
>> but the PhotoImage class seams to be doing a lot of extra work on the 
>> image, including gamma correction, etc.  I am interested in being 
>> able to display exactly the pixel values I set.
>>
>> Thank You all in advance,
>> Marcin  
>>
> How about PyUI?
> http://pyui.sourceforge.net/
> It may do what you're looking for...
> alex

To add to my previous comment.... have a look at PyGame too:
http://www.pygame.org/news.html

It's designed for games programming, and makes it a snap to load and 
display an image in a window! (and lots of other things, e.g. sprites 
and animation)



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