Keep image centered in resized JavaFX Canvas - image

I am getting my feet wet with JavaFX, and have a simple drawing program which writes to a Canvas using a PixelWriter. The program draws a pixel at a time, reflecting each pixel over a number of axes to create a growing and evolving pattern centered on the canvas:
The Canvas is in the Center region of a BorderPane, and I have written the code to resize the canvas when the application window is resized. That works OK.
However, I would like to re-center the image on the new resized canvas so that the drawing can continue to grow on the larger canvas. What might be the best approach?
My ideas/attempts so far:
Capture a snapshot of the canvas and write it back to the resized canvas, but that comes out blurry (a couple of code examples below).
I dug into GraphicsContext translations, but that does not seem to move the existing image, just adjusts future drawing.
Maybe instead of resizing the canvas, I make a huge canvas bigger than I would expect my app window to be, and center it over the center region of the border pane (perhaps using a viewport of some kind?) I'm not thrilled about the whole idea of making some arbitrarily huge canvas that I think will be big enough though. I don't want to get into scaling - I am using PixelWriter so that I get the crispest image without antialiasing and other processing.
My snapshot attempt looked like this, but was blurry:
SnapshotParameters params = new SnapshotParameters();
params.setFill(Color.WHITE);
WritableImage image = canvas.snapshot(params, null);
canvas.getGraphicsContext2D().drawImage(image, 50, 50);
The 50, 50 offset above is just for my testing/learning - I'll replace it with a proper computed offset once I get the basic copy working. From the post How to copy contents of one canvas to another? I played with the setFill() parameter, to no effect.
From the post How to save a high DPI snapshot of a JavaFX Canvas I tried the following code. It was more clear, but I have not been able to figure out how to find or compute the pixelScale to get the most accurate snapshot (the value 10 is just some number I typed in bigger than 1 to see how it reacted):
int pixelScale = 10;
WritableImage image = new WritableImage((int)Math.rint(pixelScale * canvas.getWidth()),(int)Math.rint(pixelScale * canvas.getHeight()));
SnapshotParameters params = new SnapshotParameters();
params.setTransform(Transform.scale(pixelScale, pixelScale));
params.setFill(Color.WHITE);
canvas.snapshot(params, image);
canvas.getGraphicsContext2D().drawImage(image, 50, 50);
Thanks for any direction y'all can point me in!

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How do I Crop Images in Flutter?

I searching an days for this question.
I want to Crop Images like that, in flutter:
GIF Source: https://github.com/ArthurHub/Android-Image-Cropper
The closest lib for this solution is the Image Lib, that lib offers manipulate images and crop, but i want to crop images in UI level like this gif. All libs I found dont offers that.
There is no widget that performs all that for you. However, I believe that it is possible to write that natively in flutter now. I don't have time at this particular moment to do it for you, but I can definitely point you in the right direction.
You're going to need to load the image in such a way that you can either draw it onto a canvas or use a RawImage to draw it rather than using the Image widget directly.
You need to figure out a co-ordinate system relative to the image
You'll need to find a way of drawing the crop indicator - you could do this either by drawing directly on the canvas or possibly using some combination of GestureDetector/Draggable/DropTarget. I'd suggest that sticking to Canvas might be the easiest to start.
Once the user has selected a part of the image, you need to translate the screen co-ordinates to picture co-ordinates.
You then have to create an off-screen canvas to draw the cropped image to. There are various transforms you'll have to do to makes sure the image ends up in the right place.
Once you've made the off-screen crop, you'll have to display the new image.
All of that is quite a lot of work, and probably a lot of finessing to get right.
Here's examples for a couple of the steps you'll need to do, but you'll have to figure out how to put them together.
Loading an image:
var byteData = await rootBundle.load("assets/image.jpg");
Uint8List lst = new Uint8List.view(byteData.buffer);
var codec = await UI.instantiateImageCodec(lst);
var nextFrame = await codec.getNextFrame();
var image = frameInfo.image;
Displaying an image on a canvas:
https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/dart-ui/Canvas/drawImageRect.html
https://docs.flutter.io/flutter/rendering/CustomPainter-class.html
Writing an image to a off-screen canvas:
ui.Image getCroppedImage(Image image, Rect src, Rect dst) {
var pictureRecorder = new ui.PictureRecorder();
Canvas canvas = new Canvas(pictureRecorder);
canvas.drawImageRect(image, src, dst, Paint());
return pictureRecorder.endRecording().toImage(dst.width.floor(), dst.height.floor());
}
You'll probably need to do something like this answer for getting the local coordinates of mouse/touch gestures.
Some advice - I'd start as simple as possible, not thinking about performance to start (i.e. draw everything each paint if needed, etc). Then once you get the basics working you can start thinking of optimization (i.e. using a RawImage, Transform, and Stack for the image and only re-drawing the selector, etc).
If you need any additional help let me know in a comment and I'll do my best to answer. Now that I've been writing about this a bit it does make me slightly curious to try implementing it so I may try at some point, but it probably won't be soon as I'm quite low on time at the moment. Good luck =D
The image_cropper plugin does exactly what you are looking for.

Loading an Image object into pygame

I'm making a game were you can set the background image yourself.
The selected image is resized to make it fit the purpose, and then i want to load the picture into pygame.
I've something like:
image = Image.open('file')
image.thumbnail(size, Image.ANTIALIAS)
And now I want to load image into pygame.
of course I can use:
image.save(outfile, "JPEG")
background = pygame.image.load('outfile')
Is there a nice way without having to save the image to my hard drive?
Or is it possible that pygame resizes the image?
You can use pygame.transform.scale() to resize an image:
pygame.transform.scale()
resize to new resolution
scale(Surface, (width, height), DestSurface = None) -> Surface
Resizes the Surface to a new resolution. This is a fast scale operation that does not sample the results.
An optional destination surface can be used, rather than have it create a new one. This is quicker if you want to repeatedly scale something. However the destination must be the same size as the (width, height) passed in. Also the destination surface must be the same format.
So you don't have to use PIL.

Paper.JS raster artefacts

there is a task to spread some raster cubes (PNG, with transparent background) along
the canvas based on Paper.JS platform.
I did it, however, there is a bug – canvas is bigger than browser window and when you are scrolling it to the right, animated cubes go glitchy, see attached screenshot. It seems that
the renderer doesn't clear previous frames. The same bug occurs in all browsers.
Is anyone knows how to overcome it? When I am trying to resize window and call onResize, everything becomes good unless I am not trying to scroll it again.
artefact image
Try using symbols instead of recreating the same rasters over and over:
In you 'building cubes' setup:
sprites[s] = new Symbol(new Raster(urls[s]));
and in hive():
var tmpRaster = sprites[selector].place();
Also, I believe paper.js tries to not animate off-screen elements to save on processing time. Instead of having the canvas be larger than the viewport, you may be better off using view.scrollBy(point)

How to draw a resized image to a rect on Dart

I'm trying to code some animations to my GameEngine, what I've done so far is use sprite-sets with all the possible frames of the element I'm animating, for this I use the drawImageToRect method and it works pretty well. However now I want not only to draw a piece of the image but also I want to resize the image and draw only a piece of it.
Checking the documentation I notice there's a method to draw a resized image drawImageScaledFromSource but this only allows me to draw the complete image and resize it. Which is not convenient since I want to handle animations in a single file and if I'd have to manually resize the same animation image multiple times to handle different sizes.
Is possible to resize and image AND draw only a piece of it?
drawImageScaledFromSource that you mention in your question seems to provide what you want. See the example attached to the documentation :
VideoElement video = document.query('video');
video.width = 100;
video.height = 100;
// Take the middle 20x20 pixels from the video and stretch them.
ctx.drawImageScaledFromSource(video, 40, 40, 20, 20, 50, 50, 100, 100);
The four source parameters allow to take any portion of the source.

AS3 tile map rendering (with 1000's of tiles)

Just first off I'll say that the context here is Actionscript 3.0 (IDE: Flashbuilder) along with the Starling Framework.
So, I want to create a Tile Map that could be used for a platformer or something similar.
I want to use 8x8 pixel tiles on an 800x600 pixel stage, and the problem I am having is that I don't know how to add these 7500+ tile objects to the stage without dramatically reducing the framerate.
I've found that the drop in performance comes from adding each tile to the stage, not from initializing each Tile object.
I know I'm not giving much specific information, but what I'm asking for is if there is a standardized way to draw thousands of static objects onto the stage without a loss of performance. I feel like there is a way, and I just have yet to find it.
Update:
After all of your kind help, I have found what seems to be a great solution. At first I wanted to implement Amy's solution, using copyPixels() and draw() to make one large bitmap data for the whole map and then render that to the screen. Then, though, I wanted to know if there was a Starling equivalent to this, because everything would be so much simpler if I didn't have to mix Starling with Native Flash.
Thanks to Amy again, I looked into Starling's RenderTexture class a bit more, and found that using it's "drawBundled()" and "draw()" methods, I could easily draw all of the tiles into a RenderTexture, and then put the RenderTexture into an Image (Starling's Image Class) and then just add that Image to the screen.
That solution is a million times faster than the silly slow solutions I tried before, with flattening sprites and such. Its faster both in it's initialization time and there seems to be no drop in framerate while the renderTexture's Image is on the screen.
The one thing I want to test with this is if it is easy to update the graphics of a tile during the gameplay. Say, if water spreads from a source (or something) and a "Grass" tile had to become a "Water" tile, would the RenderTexture and it's image be able to change their appearance without some sort of lag spike or performance hiccup. I will test this out soon.
Thank you all for your help!
Don't add that many objects to the stage. Instead, create a BitmpaData the size of your stage and use copyPixels() or draw() to draw onto it. Here's an article that should get you started. You can then take the concepts you learned in that post and learn anything specific you need to do that's not covered (flashandmath.com has a lot of good tutorials about pixel manipulation)
You need to manage the tiles that need to be added and removed as you move around the game. Only add to stage tiles that are with in 800 px of the center of the screen. Once the tile is beyond 800 px from center remove it. That should keep everything moving smoothly. Good luck.
or look into drawing/coping your tiles into one bitmap. You would be basically stamping your tiles onto the new bitmap. Here is an example from adobe:
import flash.display.Bitmap;
import flash.display.BitmapData;
import flash.geom.Rectangle;
import flash.geom.Point;
var bmd1:BitmapData = new BitmapData(40, 40, false, 0x000000FF);
var bmd2:BitmapData = new BitmapData(80, 40, false, 0x0000CC44);
var rect:Rectangle = new Rectangle(0, 0, 20, 20);
var pt:Point = new Point(10, 10);
bmd2.copyPixels(bmd1, rect, pt);
var bm1:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd1);
this.addChild(bm1);
var bm2:Bitmap = new Bitmap(bmd2);
this.addChild(bm2);
bm2.x = 50;
More Info on the bitmapData class. I think copyPixels is what you are after.

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