PixelBlend is a Java application designed to demonstrate the practical understanding of Spatial/Temporal Sampling and Filtering in the context of visual media types like images and videos. This project allows users to generate a video that simulates zooming and rotating into or out of an image.
- Input:
- The name of the image file (provided in an 8-bit per channel RGB format).
- Zoom speed value (indicating how fast the zooming occurs).
- Rotation speed value (controlling the rotation as the video zooms in or out).
- Frames per second to display the video.
- Output:
- A video with changing images, each of size 512x512, displayed successively until termination.
- The content changes based on the input parameters, zooming and rotating as specified.
- Frames are anti-aliased using simple averaging filters.
- Compile the program.
- Run the program from the command line with the following arguments:
Z: Zoom speed value (0.50 < Z < 2.00)R: Rotation speed value in degrees per second (-180.00 < R < 180.00)F: Frames per second to display the video (1 < F < 30)
java YourProgramName C:/myDir/myImage.rgb 1.0 0.0 30
- No zooming or rotation, displaying an unchanging image at 30 fps.
java YourProgramName C:/myDir/myImage.rgb 1.25 30.0 1
- Zooming at 1.25x per second with clockwise rotation of 30 degrees per second, displaying at 1 fps.
java YourProgramName C:/myDir/myImage.rgb 0.8 -45.0 10
- Zooming out, rotating anti-clockwise at 45 degrees per second, displaying at 10 fps.
- Images are displayed successively, with each frame generated by computing the RGB values for all pixels.
- Transformations are applied using matrices for zooming and rotating.
- Output frames are anti-aliased using simple averaging filters.
- Corner cases, such as areas outside the original image or undefined pixels, are handled by initializing them to white or black.
- The provided image is assumed to be of size 512x512.
- All parameters are expected to have reasonable values within specified ranges.
This project was completed as part of the CSCI 576 course under the instruction of Professor Parag Havaldar at the University of Southern California.
Professor Parag Havaldar
- Website: Parag Havaldar - USC Viterbi