What is the error of saved frame using saveFrame() - processing

Using the code shown at http://processing.org/reference/saveFrame_.html I seem to be getting a grey overlay on every frame I try and output from any number of different sketchs? The grey bar overlay seems to grow as the more frame are saved. Has anyone else experienced this? Have I done something incorrect?

The code that is doing this gray area in your sketch is this:
if (xport < 100) {
line(xport, 0, xport, 100);
xport = xport + 1;
}
I don't exactly know what you wanted to do, but its drawing a vertical line with xport as x and from 0 to 100 as y

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PsychToolBox GetImage doesn't save using given rect dimensions

I'm trying to save a cropped portion of the screen from my PTB experiment, but the Screen('GetImage',...) function is not working properly. Here is my code:
screenNumber = 0;
% Open screen with grey background
[w, rect] = Screen('OpenWindow', screenNumber,...
background,[], [], [],[],6);
[xCenter, yCenter] = RectCenter(rect);
sideLength = randi([100 175], 1);
baseRect = [0, 0, sideLength, sideLength];
% Center the frame
centeredRect = CenterRectOnPoint(baseRect, xCenter, yCenter);
%dot position
dots.x = randi([ round(xCenter - (sideLength/2))+15 round(xCenter + (sideLength/2))-15], 1, numeral);
dots.y = randi([round(yCenter - (sideLength/2))+15 round(yCenter + (sideLength/2))-15], 1, numeral);
%skipping code to move dots.x into dot_info.position for brevity
Screen('DrawDots',w, dot_info.position, dot_info.size,...
dot_info.colour, [], 2); %dots are drawn to center of screen
Screen('Flip', w);
% Save dot cue
%im = Screen('GetImage', w);
im = Screen('GetImage', w, centeredRect);
imwrite(im, filename);
The issue is that there should be a small square image, centered on the centeredRect rectangle, which contains the dots I've drawn. However, all I get is a correctly sized rectangle without the dots. If I save without passing the centeredRect parameter (commented out line), I get a saved picture of the whole screen, showing the dots in the center - so I know the dots are being drawn. There must be something wrong with the GetImage call and its use of the rect, such that its not saving from the center point of the screen, so i just get the background. When I run this on my monitor it works fine, but on my laptop it does not. Unfortunately I don't have access to my monitor now so I need to get this to work on my laptop. I've checked with a Screens() call and there is only one screen: screen 0 - my laptop screen.
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks.
SOLVED: I'm not sure why this worked, but I had to multiply the elements in centeredRect by 2. Hoping this helps someone else in future.

Good way to fit a .png file on Canvas?

It seems to be a very common application, but I could not make it work:
def Img2Canvas(Img,Canv): # this function will put image on a canvas by stretching it
Canv.update()
H=Canv.winfo_height()
W=Canv.winfo_width()
print([W,H])
temp=ImageTk.PhotoImage(Img.resize((W,H)))
Canv.create_image(1,1,anchor=tk.NW,image=temp)
Then I called this function in main program:
cv1=tk.Canvas(root,width=200,height=200,bg='yellow')
Img2Canvas(p1.Img,cv1)
1) this does not work, The canvas is not updated, and I just got a Yellow background. It only works if I do not do temp=ImageTk.PhotoImage(Img.resize((W,H))) inside the function, but resize the image outside of function and input temp directly...
2) the W and H seems to be 204 instead of 200, so is winfo_height() always give you 4 more pixels?
3) is there a better way to display a figure file (jpg, png, etc.) in Tkinter?
You need to keep a reference to the image temp as it is a local variable which will be garbage collected after the function ends. Suggest to return temp and assign it to a variable:
def Img2Canvas(Img, Canv):
...
return temp
...
tkimg = Img2Canvas(p1.Img, cv1)
The extra pixels in the width and height is the size of highlightthickness, set it to 0 when creating the canvas:
cv1 = tk.Canvas(root, width=200, height=200, highlightthickness=0, bg='yellow')

PIL: Imageobject.save() after drawing completely corrupts images and smurfs the ouput

I have these two functions in my program:
def depict_ph_increase(x,y,color, imobject):
program_print(color)
draw = PIL.ImageDraw.Draw(imobject)
draw.text((x, y),color,(255,255,255))
imobject.save('tmp-out.gif')
im_temp = PIL.Image.open("tmp-out.gif")#.convert2byte()
im_temp = im_temp.resize((930, 340), PIL.Image.ANTIALIAS)
MAP_temp = ImageTk.PhotoImage(im_temp)
map_display_temp = Label(main, image=MAP_temp)
map_display_temp.image = MAP_temp # keep a reference!
map_display_temp.grid(row=4,column=2, columnspan=3)
def read_temp_pixels(temperature_file, rngup, rngdown):
temp_image_object = PIL.Image.open(temperature_file)
(length, width) = get_image_size(temp_image_object)
(rngxleft, rngxright) = rngup
(rngyup,rngydown) = rngdown
print 'the length and width is'
print length, width
hotspots = 5;
for hotspot in range(0,hotspots):
color = "#ffffff"
while color == "#ffffff" or color == "#000000" or color == "#505050" or color == "#969696":
yc = random.randint(rngxleft, rngxright)
xc = random.randint(rngyup,rngydown)
color = convert_RGB_HEX(get_pixel_color(temp_image_object, xc, yc))
depict_ph_increase(xc,yc,color, temp_image_object)
The bottom one calls the top one. Their job is to read in this image:
It then randomly selects a few pixels, grabs their colors, and writes the hex values of the colors on top. But, when it redisplays the image, it gives me this garbage:
Those white numbers up near the upper right corner are the hex values its drawing. Its somehow reading the values from the corrupted image, despite the fact that I don't collect the values until AFTER I actually call the ImageDraw() method. Can someone explain to me why it is corrupting the image?
Some background--the get_pixel_color() function is used several other times in the program and is highly accurate, its just reading the pixel data from the newly corrupted image somehow. Furthermore, I do similar image reading (but not writing) at other points in my code.
If there is anything I can clarify, or any other part of my code you want to see, please let me know. You can also view the program in its entirety at my github here: https://github.com/jrfarah/coral/blob/master/src/realtime.py It should be commit #29.
Other SO questions I have examined, to no avail: Corrupted image is being saved with PIL
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I fixed the problem by editing this line:
temp_image_object = PIL.Image.open(temperature_file)
to be
temp_image_object = PIL.Image.open(temperature_file).convert('RGB')

Print image to pdf without margin using Matlab

I'm trying to use the answers I found in these questions:
How to save a plot into a PDF file without a large margin around
Get rid of the white space around matlab figure's pdf output
External source
to print a matlab plot to pdf without having the white margins included.
However using this code:
function saveTightFigure( h, outfilename, orientation )
% SAVETIGHTFIGURE(H,OUTFILENAME) Saves figure H in file OUTFILENAME without
% the white space around it.
%
% by ``a grad student"
% http://tipstrickshowtos.blogspot.com/2010/08/how-to-get-rid-of-white-margin-in.html
% get the current axes
ax = get(h, 'CurrentAxes');
% make it tight
ti = get(ax,'TightInset');
set(ax,'Position',[ti(1) ti(2) 1-ti(3)-ti(1) 1-ti(4)-ti(2)]);
% adjust the papersize
set(ax,'units','centimeters');
pos = get(ax,'Position');
ti = get(ax,'TightInset');
set(h, 'PaperUnits','centimeters');
set(h, 'PaperSize', [pos(3)+ti(1)+ti(3) pos(4)+ti(2)+ti(4)]);
set(h, 'PaperPositionMode', 'manual');
set(h, 'PaperPosition',[0 0 pos(3)+ti(1)+ti(3) pos(4)+ti(2)+ti(4)]);
% save it
%saveas(h,outfilename);
if( orientation == 1)
orient portrait
else
orient landscape
end
print( '-dpdf', outfilename );
end
Results in this output:
As you can see the 'PaperSize' seems to be set not properly. Any idea of possible fixes?
NOTE
If I change the orientation between landscape and portrait the result is the same, simply the image is chopped in a different way.
However if I save the image with the saveas(h,outfilename); instruction the correct output is produced.
Why is this? And what is the difference between the two saving instructions?
Alltogether the answers you mentioned offer a lot of approaches, but most of them didn't worked for me neither. Most of them screw up your papersize when you want to get the tight inset, the only which worked for me was:
set(axes_handle,'LooseInset',get(axes_handle,'TightInset'));
I finally wrote a function, where I specify the exact height and width of the output figure on paper, and the margin I want (or just set it to zero). Be aware that you also need to pass the axis handle. Maybe this functions works for you also.
function saveFigure( fig_handle, axes_handle, name , height , width , margin)
set(axes_handle,'LooseInset',get(axes_handle,'TightInset'));
set(fig_handle, 'Units','centimeters','PaperUnits','centimeters')
% the last two parameters of 'Position' define the figure size
set(fig_handle,'Position',[-margin -margin width height],...
'PaperPosition',[0 0 width+margin height+margin],...
'PaperSize',[width+margin height+margin],...
'PaperPositionMode','auto',...
'InvertHardcopy', 'on',...
'Renderer','painters'... %recommended if there are no alphamaps
);
saveas(fig_handle,name,'pdf')
end
Edit: if you use painters as renderer saveas and print should produce similar results. For jpegs print is preferable as you can specify the resolution.

PHP crop image - wrong area

On the clientside I have a jQuery script which I use to select a square area on the picture.
I got x1, y1 and width, height parameters. They are sent correctly to the server.
I want to crop image to this selection and then convert to PNG (although I tried both imagejpg, imagepng functions)
The code is (I use laravel 4):
$file = Input::file('picture');
$filename = md5(microtime()).'.png';
$image = imagecreatefromstring(file_get_contents($file->getRealPath()));
$crop = imagecreatetruecolor(Input::get('width'), Input::get('height'));
imagecopy($crop, $image, 0, 0, (int)Input::get('x1'), (int)Input::get('y1'), Input::get('width'), Input::get('height'));
imagepng($crop, public_path().'/uploads/pictures/'.$filename);
It works perfectly when height > width of original image. When I try to crop wide images (width > height) I got wrong area and it seems like x1,y1 are wrong (although they're not). I got right width/height, but wrong section.
What's wrong with the code above?
Solved. The problem was that client side didn't take into account original image size, it was scaled with CSS

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