Augment ImageDisplay with more functionality

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• overlay
• transparencies
• merging video streams
• animated gif + videostream
• addText
• updateText

Initially I started an OpenCV filter called Overlay. But OpenCV is lacking in a lot of aspects that Java works well in. Specifically, merging transparencies cannot be done without a bug work-around in opencv, but it is straight forward in "pure" Java without the JNI

I was thinking of adding overlays to our ImageDisplay service, so that it would work with a video stream, full screen.

The interface perhaps for blending images together could possibly mimic Processing's blend interface.

Later we might consider using a pure Java image processing library like ImageJ or ImageJ2

References

• How to blend images in Java
• Watermarking with OpenCV bug work-around
• Possible Image Libraries
• ImageJ
• ImageJ Jython examples
• Programming Guide for ImageJ
• ImageJ examples in Jython

[kwatters]

Move to Ogre ?

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yup