Image Compositing
Compositing is the act of putting together two images, allowing features of both images to be seen.
In the Android SDK, we can accomplish compositing by first drawing one Bitmap to a Canvas and then drawing a second Bitmap to the same Canvas. The only difference is that we specify a transfermode (Xfermode) on the Paint when drawing the second image.
The set of classes that can be used as a transfermode all derive from the Xfermode base class and include one called PorterDuffXfermode. The PorterDuffXfermode class is named for Thomas Porter and Tom Duff, who published a paper entitled “Compositing digital images” in the ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics publication in 1984, detailing a series of different rules for drawing images ...
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