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+! Copyright (C) 2009 Keith Lazuka.
+! See http://factorcode.org/license.txt for BSD license.
+USING: accessors arrays combinators fry grouping images
+images.loader io io.encodings io.encodings.ascii
+io.encodings.binary io.files io.files.temp kernel math
+math.parser prettyprint sequences splitting ;
+IN: images.pam
+
+SINGLETON: pam-image
+"pam" pam-image register-image-class
+
+: output-pam-header ( note num-channels width height -- )
+    ascii [
+        "P7" print
+        "HEIGHT " write pprint nl
+        "WIDTH " write pprint nl
+        "MAXVAL 255" print
+        "DEPTH " write pprint nl
+        "TUPLTYPE " prepend print
+        "ENDHDR" print
+    ] with-encoded-output ; inline
+
+: output-pam ( note num-channels width height pixels -- )
+    [ output-pam-header ] dip write ;
+
+: verify-bitmap-format ( image -- )
+    [ component-type>> ubyte-components assert= ]
+    [ component-order>> { RGB RGBA } memq? [
+        "PAM encode: component-order must be RGB or RGBA!" throw
+    ] unless ] bi ;
+
+GENERIC: TUPLTYPE ( component-order -- str )
+M: component-order TUPLTYPE name>> ;
+M: RGBA TUPLTYPE drop "RGB_ALPHA" ;
+
+M: pam-image image>stream
+    drop {
+        [ verify-bitmap-format ]
+        [ component-order>> [ TUPLTYPE ] [ component-count ] bi ]
+        [ dim>> first2 ]
+        [ bitmap>> ]
+    } cleave output-pam ;
+
+! PAM Decoder
+
+TUPLE: loading-pam width height depth maxval tupltype bitmap ;
+
+: ?glue ( seq1 seq2 seq3 -- seq )
+    pick empty? [ drop nip ] [ glue ] if ;
+
+: append-tupltype ( pam tupltype -- pam )
+    '[ _ " " ?glue ] change-tupltype ;
+
+: read-header-lines ( pam -- pam )
+    readln " " split unclip swap " " join swap {
+        { "ENDHDR" [ drop ] }
+        { "HEIGHT" [ string>number >>height read-header-lines ] }
+        { "WIDTH" [ string>number >>width read-header-lines ] }
+        { "DEPTH" [ string>number >>depth read-header-lines ] }
+        { "MAXVAL" [ string>number >>maxval read-header-lines ] }
+        { "TUPLTYPE" [ append-tupltype read-header-lines ] }
+        [ 2drop read-header-lines ]
+    } case ;
+
+: read-header ( pam -- pam )
+    ascii [
+        readln "P7" assert=
+        read-header-lines
+    ] with-decoded-input ;
+
+: bytes-per-pixel ( pam -- n )
+    [ depth>> ] [ maxval>> 256 < 1 2 ? ] bi * ;
+
+: bitmap-length ( pam -- num-bytes )
+    [ width>> ] [ height>> ] [ bytes-per-pixel ] tri * * ;
+
+: read-bitmap ( pam -- pam )
+    dup bitmap-length read >>bitmap ;
+
+: load-pam ( stream -- pam )
+    [ loading-pam new read-header read-bitmap ] with-input-stream ;
+
+: tupltype>component-order ( pam -- component-order )
+    tupltype>> dup {
+        { "RGB_ALPHA" [ drop RGBA ] }
+        { "RGBA" [ drop RGBA ] }
+        { "RGB" [ drop RGB ] }
+        [ "Cannot determine component-order from TUPLTYPE " prepend throw ]
+    } case ;
+
+: pam>image ( pam -- image )
+    [ <image> ] dip {
+        [ [ width>> ] [ height>> ] bi 2array >>dim ]
+        [ tupltype>component-order >>component-order ]
+        [ drop ubyte-components >>component-type ]
+        [ bitmap>> >>bitmap ]
+    } cleave ;
+
+M: pam-image stream>image drop load-pam pam>image ;