2018.01.16 19:34 "Re: [Tiff] Strategies for multi-core speedups", by Paavo Helde

On 16.01.2018 20:36, Joe.Maniaci@ricoh-usa.com wrote:

I am a complete newbie to digital imagery and TIFFs in general, so please

forgive any ignorance.

requirement.

So for a case like mine, thread overhead is nothing to worry about. That

and the more I read about the C++11 thread library, the less I worry. I

can just leave it to the library to determine how many threads should

operate in my 4-core environments, or my 16-core environments. At least

that's the impression I've garnered.

If all you want is a viewer then you are limited by the screen sizes which are typically not more than ca 2000x2000 pixels. And this is pretty small image nowadays, there is no need to multithread anything, you could just read the needed tiles from the TIFF file in real time and maybe add a small cache of the read tiles so you don't need to read them again if the user pans left 1 pixel.

For zooming out the TIFF file should have different frames of the same image stored in decreasing resolutions so that a suitable resolution can be chosen for display - these are called pyramidal tiffs. The TIFF standard suggests that such varying resolution images should be stored as sub-IFD-s but as many viewers do not support sub-IFD-s they are typically stored just in standard IFD-s, and some XML piece in the first IFD provides the details. I am sure there are multiple variants of such pyramidal tiff formats, one from our company as well, and of course there are multiple readers supporting such tiff files.

hth

Paavo