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AlphaComposite (Java SE 19 & JDK 19)

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Composite

The

AlphaComposite

class implements basic alpha compositing rules for combining source and destination colors to achieve blending and transparency effects with graphics and images. The specific rules implemented by this class are the basic set of 12 rules described in T. Porter and T. Duff, "Compositing Digital Images", SIGGRAPH 84, 253-259. The rest of this documentation assumes some familiarity with the definitions and concepts outlined in that paper.

This class extends the standard equations defined by Porter and Duff to include one additional factor. An instance of the AlphaComposite class can contain an alpha value that is used to modify the opacity or coverage of every source pixel before it is used in the blending equations.

It is important to note that the equations defined by the Porter and Duff paper are all defined to operate on color components that are premultiplied by their corresponding alpha components. Since the ColorModel and Raster classes allow the storage of pixel data in either premultiplied or non-premultiplied form, all input data must be normalized into premultiplied form before applying the equations and all results might need to be adjusted back to the form required by the destination before the pixel values are stored.

Also note that this class defines only the equations for combining color and alpha values in a purely mathematical sense. The accurate application of its equations depends on the way the data is retrieved from its sources and stored in its destinations. See Implementation Caveats for further information.

The following factors are used in the description of the blending equation in the Porter and Duff paper:

Factors Factor Definition As the alpha component of the source pixel Cs a color component of the source pixel in premultiplied form Ad the alpha component of the destination pixel Cd a color component of the destination pixel in premultiplied form Fs the fraction of the source pixel that contributes to the output Fd the fraction of the destination pixel that contributes to the output Ar the alpha component of the result Cr a color component of the result in premultiplied form

Using these factors, Porter and Duff define 12 ways of choosing the blending factors Fs and Fd to produce each of 12 desirable visual effects. The equations for determining Fs and Fd are given in the descriptions of the 12 static fields that specify visual effects. For example, the description for SRC_OVER specifies that Fs = 1 and Fd = (1-As). Once a set of equations for determining the blending factors is known they can then be applied to each pixel to produce a result using the following set of equations:

      Fs = f(Ad)
      Fd = f(As)
      Ar = As*Fs + Ad*Fd
      Cr = Cs*Fs + Cd*Fd

The following factors will be used to discuss our extensions to the blending equation in the Porter and Duff paper:

Factors Factor Definition Csr one of the raw color components of the source pixel Cdr one of the raw color components of the destination pixel Aac the "extra" alpha component from the AlphaComposite instance Asr the raw alpha component of the source pixel Adr the raw alpha component of the destination pixel Adf the final alpha component stored in the destination Cdf the final raw color component stored in the destination Preparing Inputs

The AlphaComposite class defines an additional alpha value that is applied to the source alpha. This value is applied as if an implicit SRC_IN rule were first applied to the source pixel against a pixel with the indicated alpha by multiplying both the raw source alpha and the raw source colors by the alpha in the AlphaComposite. This leads to the following equation for producing the alpha used in the Porter and Duff blending equation:

      As = Asr * Aac 

All of the raw source color components need to be multiplied by the alpha in the

AlphaComposite

instance. Additionally, if the source was not in premultiplied form then the color components also need to be multiplied by the source alpha. Thus, the equation for producing the source color components for the Porter and Duff equation depends on whether the source pixels are premultiplied or not:

      Cs = Csr * Asr * Aac     (if source is not premultiplied)
      Cs = Csr * Aac           (if source is premultiplied) 

No adjustment needs to be made to the destination alpha:

      Ad = Adr 

The destination color components need to be adjusted only if they are not in premultiplied form:

      Cd = Cdr * Ad    (if destination is not premultiplied)
      Cd = Cdr         (if destination is premultiplied) 
Applying the Blending Equation

The adjusted As, Ad, Cs, and Cd are used in the standard Porter and Duff equations to calculate the blending factors Fs and Fd and then the resulting premultiplied components Ar and Cr.

Preparing Results

The results only need to be adjusted if they are to be stored back into a destination buffer that holds data that is not premultiplied, using the following equations:

      Adf = Ar
      Cdf = Cr                 (if dest is premultiplied)
      Cdf = Cr / Ar            (if dest is not premultiplied) 

Note that since the division is undefined if the resulting alpha is zero, the division in that case is omitted to avoid the "divide by zero" and the color components are left as all zeros.

Performance Considerations

For performance reasons, it is preferable that Raster objects passed to the compose method of a CompositeContext object created by the AlphaComposite class have premultiplied data. If either the source Raster or the destination Raster is not premultiplied, however, appropriate conversions are performed before and after the compositing operation.

Implementation Caveats
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