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Subject: Re: [9fans] point2rgb and point2rgba
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 11:23:43 -0700
From: andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>
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> but i question the utility.  if you want just one
> pixel, fine, but how often does that happen?
> you probably want many pixels, in which case
> you should use unloadimage anyway.
> 

i'm actually going the other way, but loadimage is really slow on
anything remote, i was hoping that querying a single pixel would be
faster and i could go away with the memimage* functions. 

i'll handle chan2rgb conversion locally.