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+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                  K   K  EEEEE  RRRR   N   N  EEEEE  L                       %
+%                  K  K   E      R   R  NN  N  E      L                       %
+%                  KKK    EEE    RRRR   N N N  EEE    L                       %
+%                  K  K   E      R R    N  NN  E      L                       %
+%                  K   K  EEEEE  R  R   N   N  EEEEE  LLLLL                   %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                     Write the Morphology Kernel Format                      %
+%                                                                             %
+%                              Software Design                                %
+%                                   Cristy                                    %
+%                                October 2020                                 %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%  Copyright 1999-2020 ImageMagick Studio LLC, a non-profit organization      %
+%  dedicated to making software imaging solutions freely available.           %
+%                                                                             %
+%  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.  You may  %
+%  obtain a copy of the License at                                            %
+%                                                                             %
+%    https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php                               %
+%                                                                             %
+%  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software        %
+%  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,          %
+%  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.   %
+%  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and        %
+%  limitations under the License.                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%
+*/
+
+/*
+  Include declarations.
+*/
+#include "MagickCore/studio.h"
+#include "MagickCore/blob.h"
+#include "MagickCore/blob-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/cache.h"
+#include "MagickCore/colorspace.h"
+#include "MagickCore/colorspace-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/exception.h"
+#include "MagickCore/exception-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/image.h"
+#include "MagickCore/image-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/list.h"
+#include "MagickCore/magick.h"
+#include "MagickCore/memory_.h"
+#include "MagickCore/monitor.h"
+#include "MagickCore/monitor-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/pixel-accessor.h"
+#include "MagickCore/quantum-private.h"
+#include "MagickCore/static.h"
+#include "MagickCore/string_.h"
+#include "MagickCore/module.h"
+
+/*
+  Forward declarations.
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType
+  WriteKERNELImage(const ImageInfo *,Image *,ExceptionInfo *);
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   R e g i s t e r K E R N E L I m a g e                                     %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  RegisterKERNELImage() adds attributes for the KERNEL image format to the
+%  list of supported formats.  The attributes include the image format tag, a
+%  method to read and/or write the format, whether the format supports the
+%  saving of more than one frame to the same file or blob, whether the format
+%  supports native in-memory I/O, and a brief description of the format.
+%
+%  The format of the RegisterKERNELImage method is:
+%
+%      size_t RegisterKERNELImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport size_t RegisterKERNELImage(void)
+{
+  MagickInfo
+    *entry;
+
+  entry=AcquireMagickInfo("KERNEL","KERNEL","Morphology Kernel");
+  entry->encoder=(EncodeImageHandler *) WriteKERNELImage;
+  entry->flags^=CoderAdjoinFlag;
+  (void) RegisterMagickInfo(entry);
+  return(MagickImageCoderSignature);
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   U n r e g i s t e r K E R N E L I m a g e                                 %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  UnregisterKERNELImage() removes format registrations made by the
+%  KERNEL module from the list of supported formats.
+%
+%  The format of the UnregisterKERNELImage method is:
+%
+%      UnregisterKERNELImage(void)
+%
+*/
+ModuleExport void UnregisterKERNELImage(void)
+{
+  (void) UnregisterMagickInfo("KERNEL");
+}
+
+/*
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%   W r i t e K E R N E L I m a g e                                           %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%                                                                             %
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%
+%  WriteKERNELImage() writes an image to a file in KERNEL image format.
+%
+%  The format of the WriteKERNELImage method is:
+%
+%      MagickBooleanType WriteKERNELImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+%        Image *image,ExceptionInfo *exception)
+%
+%  A description of each parameter follows.
+%
+%    o image_info: the image info.
+%
+%    o image:  The image.
+%
+%    o exception: return any errors or warnings in this structure.
+%
+*/
+static MagickBooleanType WriteKERNELImage(const ImageInfo *image_info,
+  Image *image,ExceptionInfo *exception)
+{
+  char
+    buffer[MagickPathExtent];
+
+  MagickBooleanType
+    status;
+
+  ssize_t
+    y;
+
+  /*
+    Open output image file.
+  */
+  assert(image_info != (const ImageInfo *) NULL);
+  assert(image_info->signature == MagickCoreSignature);
+  assert(image != (Image *) NULL);
+  assert(image->signature == MagickCoreSignature);
+  if (image->debug != MagickFalse)
+    (void) LogMagickEvent(TraceEvent,GetMagickModule(),"%s",image->filename);
+  assert(exception != (ExceptionInfo *) NULL);
+  assert(exception->signature == MagickCoreSignature);
+  status=OpenBlob(image_info,image,WriteBinaryBlobMode,exception);
+  if (status == MagickFalse)
+    return(status);
+  /*
+    Write KERNEL header.
+  */
+  (void) TransformImageColorspace(image,sRGBColorspace,exception);
+  (void) FormatLocaleString(buffer,MagickPathExtent,"%gx%g:",(double)
+    image->columns,(double) image->rows);
+  (void) WriteBlobString(image,buffer);
+  /*
+    Convert MIFF to KERNEL raster pixels.
+  */
+  for (y=0; y < (ssize_t) image->rows; y++)
+  {
+    register const Quantum
+      *magick_restrict p;
+
+    register ssize_t
+      x;
+
+    p=GetVirtualPixels(image,0,y,image->columns,1,exception);
+    if (p == (const Quantum *) NULL)
+      break;
+    for (x=0; x < (ssize_t) image->columns; x++)
+    {
+      if ((x != 0) || (y != 0))
+        (void) WriteBlobString(image,",");
+      if ((image->alpha_trait == BlendPixelTrait) &&
+          (GetPixelAlpha(image,p) < OpaqueAlpha/2))
+        (void) WriteBlobString(image,"-");
+      else
+        {
+          (void) FormatLocaleString(buffer,MagickPathExtent,"%.*g",
+            GetMagickPrecision(),QuantumScale*GetPixelIntensity(image,p));
+          (void) WriteBlobString(image,buffer);
+        }
+      p+=GetPixelChannels(image);
+    }
+    (void) WriteBlobString(image,"\n");
+    if (image->previous == (Image *) NULL)
+      {
+        status=SetImageProgress(image,SaveImageTag,(MagickOffsetType) y,
+          image->rows);
+        if (status == MagickFalse)
+          break;
+      }
+  }
+  (void) CloseBlob(image);
+  return(MagickTrue);
+}