René's URL Explorer Experiment

{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Render only some regions of an image","articleBody":"Two (correlated) propositions :\r\n- The client.render() could take an optionnal mask describing the regions in the output image to render.\r\n  This could be of many forms, like a bitmask (of any size, to be scaled to the acutal rendering buffer size).\r\n  This could also be a list of 2D bounding box in screen coordinates or a list of circles (center + radius).\r\n\r\n- The client.getImage() could take a list of regions of interest to retrieve sub-image of the actual rendering\r\n\r\n\r\nA nice and coherent API could be :\r\n**client.render(regions:List[Tuple[int,int,int,int]]=None)**\r\n**client.getImage(regions:List[Tuple[int,int,int,int]]=None)**\r\n\r\nThe client.render() proposition could be used to make faster computations.\r\nThe client.getImage() would maily be just an helper function, when combine with the client.render() proposition.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/flegac","@type":"Person","name":"flegac"},"datePublished":"2020-02-04T10:16:05.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":0},"url":"https://github.com/2/surrender_client_API/issues/2"}