[GRASS5] i.composite problems verified

[Glynn Clements]

Markus Neteler wrote:

> > > > What kind of operations might be performed upon the resulting layer? 
> > > > >From what I can tell, GRASS seems to be oriented towards handling
> > > > either scalar quantities or discrete categories. The cell values
> > > > resulting from i.composite certainly aren't scalars, and as categories
> > > > they don't really have much meaning.
> > > 
> > > Purpose would mostly be for display and map making.
> > 
> > For display, there's already d.rgb; I don't know about paint drivers.
> 
> The d.rgb is not in release branch as it's color quality was
> very poor. The i.composite produces much better results, unfortunately
> it cannot be used scripted.
> 
> If we could have d.rgb back (fixed), it would be fine :-)

I wasn't thinking about supporting generating composite images (the
"out=" parameter), just for rendering (using R_RGB_raster()).

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>

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