com.mebigfatguy.polycasso
Class Feedback

java.lang.Object
  com.mebigfatguy.polycasso.Feedback

public class Feedback
extends java.lang.Object

an immutable class for processing a test image against target image for closeness.

Constructor Summary

Feedback(java.awt.image.BufferedImage targetImage)
creates a feedback object with a given targetImage.

Method Summary

long	calculateDelta(java.awt.image.BufferedImage testImage) returns a score of how close the test image is to the target which is the square of the error to the target image

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

Feedback

public Feedback(java.awt.image.BufferedImage targetImage)

creates a feedback object with a given targetImage. Caches the image bytes in member variables.

Parameters:

targetImage - the target image that will be the judge of test images

Method Detail

calculateDelta

public long calculateDelta(java.awt.image.BufferedImage testImage)

returns a score of how close the test image is to the target which is the square of the error to the target image

Parameters:

testImage - the image to score

Returns:

a value that represents its closeness to ideal