Ticket #729 (new feature)

This ticket is an idea dump. New separate tickets should be hatched and tackled as appropriate. Ideas for enhancement:

IJ2 uses a lot of unary operations. A lot of these operations could be converted to binary operations between a ConstantFunction and the existing ImageFunction.

Make a function that is a composition of other functions (ComposedFunction). It maintains a local neighborhood for each subfunction and delegates evaluate() calls to the correct subfunction.

Given composed function idea it might be useful to track a functions domain and compose from domain compatible functions.

Make a PointNeighborhood which is a neighborhood whose neg & pos offets are all zero. Could hatch its own high speed iterator.

Find ways to performance improve the RealAverage & RealMedian functions. Median does a sort when it could find a faster means of finding the middle value(s). Knuth has such algorithms.

Make an Int class (like Bool, Real, Complex)? These might go away and transition to RealType, ShortType, Floattype, etc.

Flesh out numerous examples showing discrete integration, conditional assignment within the intersection of an ellipse and a square, hilighting all pixels on the border of a binary figure in an image, etc.

Old revisions had some ideas not yet present:

• boolean b = function.canAccept(numDimensions)
• functions that return a vector of primitive values
• a function that returns the distance from a fixed point
• the ability to pass a NullFunction to an ImageAssignement and collect stats via an Observer. Make these assigners handle Observers
• make assigners interruptable

Make this code multithreaded. Need to expand Function definition to have a duplicate() method. For each processor you duplicate() a function and pass each function to its own thread. They work on different parts of output image. Each cursor lives in its own thread this way.

Play with Complex and Continuous functions. See how we can take advantage of this.

I have many notes in a workbook at home that should be gleaned for further ideas.