Naming Conventions

Description of established naming conventions used in source code of GIL, tests and examples.

Concrete Types

Concrete (non-generic) GIL types follow this naming convention:

ColorSpace + BitDepth + [f | s]+ [c] + [_planar] + [_step] + ClassType + _t

where:

• ColorSpace indicates layout and ordering of components. For example, rgb, bgr, cmyk, rgba.
• BitDepth indicates the bit depth of the color channel. For example, 8,``16``,``32``.
• By default, type of channel is unsigned integral. The s tag indicates signed integral. The f tag indicates a floating point type, which is always signed.
• By default, objects operate on mutable pixels. The c tag indicates object operating over immutable pixels.
• _planar indicates planar organization (as opposed to interleaved).
• _step indicates special image views, locators and iterators which traverse the data in non-trivial way. For example, backwards or every other pixel.
• ClassType is _image (image), _view (image view), _loc (pixel 2D locator) _ptr (pixel iterator), _ref (pixel reference), _pixel (pixel value).
• _t suffix indicaes it is a name of a type.

For example:

bgr8_image_t             a;    // 8-bit interleaved BGR image
cmyk16_pixel_t           b;    // 16-bit CMYK pixel value;
cmyk16c_planar_ref_t     c(b); // const reference to a 16-bit planar CMYK pixel.
rgb32f_planar_step_ptr_t d;    // step pointer to a 32-bit planar RGB pixel.