sprite_blit — GFX2D sprite op

Data kinds: rgba × rgbargba

Call: import gfx2d; gfx2d.sprite_blit(dst, sprite, x=0, y=0, anchor='top_left', flip_x=False, flip_y=False, opacity=1.0) (or opsgfx2d.get("sprite_blit"))

Usage

Composite `sprite onto a copy of dst at integer (x, y)`.

`x is the column and y the row of the sprite's anchor` point;

`anchor is one of "top_left", "top_right", "bottom_left"`,

`"bottom_right", "center"`.

**Out-of-bounds behaviour is to clip silently, and that is a decision, not

an oversight.** Half a sprite hanging off the edge of the screen is the

normal case in this family, and raising there would make the common path the

exceptional one. A sprite entirely outside returns `dst` unchanged. The

contrast with :func:viewport — which raises for the same situation — is

deliberate: a camera asking for pixels that do not exist is a bug in the

caller's arithmetic, a sprite walking off screen is not.

`x/y` must be integers. Sub-pixel placement changes the picture

(it resamples), so it is :func:sprite_transform's job and not a silent

rounding here.

References (sample data, literature)

• Sample-data catalog (download URLs / licences) — 2-D uses skimage.data (BSD/public domain) plus synthetic images; 3-D lists download URLs for real data sources (Stanford, PDS, …).

• Operator provenance and references — the sources of the research/methods this op family came from.

• The canonical algorithm (author, year) and its uses are named in the family usage guide above.

Runnable examples (verified samples that actually call this op)

gfx2d_scenepy -3.11 examples/gfx2d_scene.py

Ops the type connects to (they accept rgba as input)

premultiply · alpha_composite · sprite_transform · sprite_sheet_slice · nine_slice

Same category (sprite)

sprite_synthesize · sprite_transform · sprite_sheet_slice · nine_slice


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