I am trying to flip NSImage created with the NSImageBitmapRep view. After some digging ( Flipping Quicktime preview and capture and Mirroring CIImage / NSImage ) I tried two ways through CIImage and applying a scaling transformation with -1 for both factors.
First use CIImage imageByApplyingTransform:
NSBitmapImageRep *imgRep = ...
CGImageRef cgi = [imgRep CGImage];
CIImage *cii = [CIImage imageWithCGImage:cgi];
CGAffineTransform at = CGAffineTransformTranslate(CGAffineTransformMakeScale(-1, -1), 0, 0);
NSCIImageRep *ciiRep = [NSCIImageRep imageRepWithCIImage:[cii imageByApplyingTransform:at]];
NSImage *img = [[[NSImage alloc] init] autorelease];
[img addRepresentation:ciiRep];
[self.ivImage setImage:img];
then using the CIAffineTransform filter:
NSBitmapImageRep *imgRep = ...
CGImageRef cgi = [imgRep CGImage];
CIImage *cii = [CIImage imageWithCGImage:cgi];
CIFilter *f = [CIFilter filterWithName:@"CIAffineTransform"];
NSAffineTransform *t = [NSAffineTransform transform];
[t scaleXBy:1.0 yBy:1.0];
[f setValue:t forKey:@"inputTransform"];
[f setValue:cii forKey:@"inputImage"];
CIImage *cii2 = [f valueForKey:@"outputImage"];
NSCIImageRep *ciiRep = [NSCIImageRep imageRepWithCIImage:cii2];
NSImage *img = [[[NSImage alloc] init] autorelease];
[img addRepresentation:ciiRep];
[self.ivImage setImage:img];
Both methods create a blank image. I also tried to translate the image if it came out of the screen due to -1 scaling, but to no avail. If I use positive values for scaling, I see that the conversion is applied correctly.
self.ivImage - NSImageView. NSImage, , NSImageView .
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