[mapserver-users] Draw roads WITHOUT anti-aliasing

[Erik H]

Thanks for your reply, but I should have mentioned that I have a LOT of
different colors to be displayed, almost a million...

I should also have mentioned that I've already tried to filter out the
anti-aliased pixels by setting all alpha bytes to 255 and then assuming
that all pixels that don't have alpha=255 in the PNG can be removed, but
that assumption seems to be wrong.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 2:00 PM, Lime, Steve D (MNIT) <
steve.lime at state.mn.us> wrote:

> Hmmm… I wonder if you just could use a pre-computed palette to control
> quantizing to 8 bits. You can supply a palette file (RGB or RGBA) and the
> MapServer will map 24/32-bit values to those in the palette. Format options
> are:
>
>
>
>      FORMATOPTION "PALETTE_FORCE=TRUE"
>
>     FORMATOPTION "PALETTE=palette.txt"
>
>
>
> This will definitely limit the colors in your output image to those you
> specify. The question is whether or not the anti-aliased colors will map to
> the right color and that will depend on your palette. I did write a simple
> test with a 5 color palette (black, white, red, green and blue) and it
> seems to work ok but that’s a very simple palette… Based on your
> application it might work though.
>
>
>
> -          http://maps1.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv70?map=/usr/
> local/mapserver/apps/test/palette/test.map&mode=map (24-bit)
>
> -          http://maps1.dnr.state.mn.us/cgi-bin/mapserv70?map=/usr/
> local/mapserver/apps/test/palette/test.map&mode=map&map.imagetype=png8
> (8-bit w/5 colors)
>
>
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> *From:* mapserver-users [mailto:mapserver-users-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Erik H
> *Sent:* Monday, October 16, 2017 10:58 AM
> *To:* mapserver-users at lists.osgeo.org
> *Subject:* [mapserver-users] Draw roads WITHOUT anti-aliasing
>
>
>
> I'm running a tiling server that uses MapServer 7.0.4 to generate PNGs.
>
>
>
> My colleagues came up with an ingenious idea to animate traffic conditions
> that would require them to identify road segments based on their color.
> They asked me to generate tiles with a predetermined RGBA value per road
> segment.
>
>
>
> I configured a layer of type LINE, with a STYLE section containing 'COLOR
> [palette]' (palette being a field in the database query). Initially, I
> thought I was creating the images my colleagues needed, but it seems that
> the anti-aliasing causes some pixels to have colors other than the one I
> specified; this prevents us from identifying the road segments.
>
>
>
> We can live without anti-aliasing, but I was unable to turn it off; I
> tried both the AGG/PNG and GD/PNG drivers and messed with various
> FORMATOPTION identifiers, but nothing seemed to make any difference.
>
>
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> Any suggestions?
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
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