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asked 2017-10-11 10:49:18 -0600

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Hi there, I am going to define my new class and my new class will have a public variable which is a 2D array of Mat. The main problem is that the dimensions of this array is not known in advanced, e.g. a class may need a 35 array and another class may need a 1012 array of Mat elements. How can I define such class? Any idea? I know that it should be fulfilled by pointers, but I failed to implement it so far |)

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language used ?

(and again, unlikely, that you have to (or should even) invent a new class for this.)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2017-10-11 10:54:42 -0600 )edit

I use C++ with MS visual studio

Digital Design gravatar imageDigital Design ( 2017-10-11 11:00:40 -0600 )edit

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answered 2017-10-11 11:11:14 -0600

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updated 2017-10-11 11:30:29 -0600

you should definitely NOT invent a new class, but rather use one of the various ways already possible, to achieve that

  1. just use std::vector<Mat>. (probably the most easy one, (and on top of this list for a reason))
  2. put your 3rd dimension into the "channels", e.g.: cvMat(10,10,CV_32FC(17)); // [10x10x17];
  3. use a 3 (or more) dimensional cv::Mat:

    int sz[] = {17, 10, 10};

    cv::Mat(3, sz,CV_32F); // a 3d volume of 17 10x10 planes

(p.s: the main reason i want to steer you away making a new class is:

reinventing the wheel might feel easy (initially), but matching existing expectations (how it should behave) to your creature is terribly hard!)

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Dear Break, Many thanks for your answer. But I don´t know the array dimensions and it may vary widely, e.g. [4][6] to [1200][2500]... What to do?

Digital Design gravatar imageDigital Design ( 2017-10-11 11:23:57 -0600 )edit

methods 1 and 3 can be used with sizes obtained at runtime (you only have to replace numbers like 17 with a variable)

berak gravatar imageberak ( 2017-10-11 11:32:30 -0600 )edit

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