G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

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Latest stable version: 3.5.5 Current pre-release: 3.6.0 (2025/07/18)

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Table of Contents ▸ List of Commands ▸ Values Manipulation ▸ cast

◀ balance_gamma | complex2polar ▶

cast

Arguments:

datatype_source,datatype_target

Description:

Cast datatype of image buffer from specified source type to specified target type.

datatype_source and datatype_target can be { uint8 | int8 | uint16 | int16 | uint32 | int32 | uint64 | int64 | float32 | float64 }.

G'MIC - GREYC's Magic for Image Computing: A Full-Featured Open-Source Framework for Image Processing

G'MIC is an open-source software distributed under the CeCILL free software licenses (LGPL-like and/or
GPL-compatible). Copyrights (C) Since July 2008, David Tschumperlé - GREYC UMR CNRS 6072, Image Team.