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GL_OML_interlace


Name


    OML_interlace

Name Strings


    GL_OML_interlace

Contact


    Jon Leech, Silicon Graphics (ljp 'at' sgi.com)

Status


    Complete. Approved by the Khronos SIG on July 19, 2001.

Version


    Last Modified Date: 07/23/2001
Author Revision: $Header: //depot/main/doc/registry/extensions/OML/interlace.spec#5 $

Number


    239

Dependencies


    None.

Overview


    This extension provides a way to interlace rows of pixels when
drawing, reading, or copying pixel rectangles or texture images. In
this context, interlacing means skiping over rows of pixels or
texels in the destination. This is useful for dealing with video
data since a single frame of video is typically composed from two
images or fields: one image specifying the data for even rows of the
frame and the other image specifying the data for odd rows of the
frame.

The functionality provided by this extension is a combination
of the older SGIX_interlace and INGR_interlace_read extensions,
with changes applying interlacing to texture image queries.

Issues


  * Should there be a single enumerant controlling both draw and read
operations? For the moment, we continue using separate enums, for
backwards compatibility with SGIX_interlace and INGR_interlace_read.

* Can we use the same enum values as the older extensions? Possibly,
depending on the resolution of issues of exactly which operations
interlacing is applied to. For the moment we assume the same
values cannot be used.

* Are there any GLX protocol issues relating to the actual vs.
specified size of the image being transferred? Probably not, since
unlike the effects of convolution, the image being transferred over
the wire is always the specified size; all that changes is where the
pixels are positioned in the frame buffer.

* Discreet requested that INTERLACE_READ_OML apply to GetTexImage. The
extension does not support this because there's no easy way to
support it with any generality: with only the binary
INTERLACE_READ_OML setting available, the implementation could
return only the even rows, but would have no way of indicating that
only the odd rows should be returned. This is non-orthogonal
probably more frustrating than useful; a generic solution would
require creation of a GetTexSubImage call.

* We may need to be more precise about exactly which operations
interlacing is and is not applied to. Currently it must be inferred
from other parts of the OpenGL Specification, and different
implementations are likely to disagree on this. Some language has
been added to section 6.1.4 to deal explicitly with GetTexImage, but
may be needed elsewhere as well.

IP Status


    No known issues.

New Procedures and Functions


    None.

New Tokens


    Accepted by the <cap> parameter of Enable, Disable, and IsEnabled,
and by the <pname> parameter of GetBooleanv, GetIntegerv, GetFloatv,
and GetDoublev:

INTERLACE_OML 0x8980
INTERLACE_READ_OML 0x8981

Additions to Chapter 2 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (OpenGL Operation)


    None.

Additions to Chapter 3 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (Rasterization)


  - (3.6.4, p. 99) Insert the following subsection between "Pixel
Transfer Operations" and "Final Conversion"

Interlacing

This step applies only if INTERLACE_OML is enabled. All of the
groups which belong to a row m in the source image are treated as if
they belonged to the row 2 * m. If the source image has a height of
h rows, this effectively expands the height of the image to 2 * h -
1 rows. After interlacing, only every other row of the image is
defined. If the interlaced pixel rectangle is rasterized to the
framebuffer, then only these rows are converted to fragments. If the
interlaced pixel rectangle is a texture image, then only these rows
are written to texure memory.

In cases where errors can result from the specification of invalid
image dimensions, it is the resulting dimensions that are tested,
not the dimensions of the source image. (A specific example is
TexImage2D, which specifies constraints for image dimensions. Even
if TexImage2D is called with a null pixel pointer, the dimensions of
the resulting texture image are those that would result from the
effective expansion of the specified image due to interlacing.)

Additions to Chapter 4 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (Per-Fragment Operations and the Frame Buffer)


  - (4.3.2, p. 157) Modify the 5th paragraph of "Obtaining Pixels from
the Framebuffer" to read

If INTERLACE_READ_OML is disabled, then ReadPixels obtains values
from the selected buffer for each pixel with lower left hand corner
at (x+i, y+j) for 0 <= i < width and 0 <= j < height; this pixel is
said to be the ith pixel in the jth row.

If INTERLACE_READ_OML is enabled, then ReadPixels obtains values
from the selected buffer for each pixel with lower left hand corner
at (x+i, y+(j*2)) for 0 <= i < width and 0 <= j < height; this pixel
is said to be the ith pixel in the jth row.

If any of these pixels lies outside of the window...


Additions to Chapter 5 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (Special Functions)


    None.

Additions to Chapter 6 of the OpenGL 1.2.1 Specification (State and State Requests)


  - (6.1.4, p. 184) Insert in the second paragraph, following "... and
from the first image to the last for three-dimensional textures."

The value of INTERLACE_READ_OML has no effect on the operation of
GetTexImage.

Additions to the GLX 1.3 Specification


    None.

Errors


    See above.

New State


    Get Value		Type Get Command Initial Value Attribute
--------- ---- ----------- ------------- ---------
INTERLACE_OML B IsEnabled False pixel/enable
INTERLACE_READ_OML B IsEnabled False pixel/enable

New Implementation Dependent State


    None.

Revision History


  * Revision 5, 07/24/2001 - Finalized Status for OpenML 1.0.
* Revision 4, 07/11/2001 - Assign enum values and extension number
for the registry.
* Revision 3 - formatting changes for OpenML Specification
* Revision 2 - expanded description of why GetTexImage doesn't support
interlaced readbacks.
* Revision 1 - derived from SGIX_interlace and INGR_interlace_read.

Implementation Support


   List of OpenGL implementations supporting the GL_OML_interlace extension

Original File


   Original text file for the GL_OML_interlace extension


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