New images from existing ones

### 26.1.6 New images from existing ones

The () operator can be used to create image objects from an existing one. With an image object img:

- img(grey) returns a copy of img converted to grayscale.
- img(α), where α is a positive real number, returns a copy img with size scaled to α w× α h.
- img(w,h) returns a copy of img resized to w× h (possibly changing the aspect ratio).
- img(x,y,w,h) returns a new image corresponding to the portion of img with dimensions w× h and the upper left corner at (x,y).

Note that img is unaffected by the above operations.

#### Examples

Assume that the image terre.jpg (see Section 26.1.4) is loaded to the variable img. Then:

cropped:=img(220,20,100,100)

an image of size 100×100 (RGB) |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

display(cropped,0); display(cropped(grey),120)

title:="resized from 512 x 256 to 102 x 51"; display(img(0.2))