Cutting parts of an image and reordering them

[pedjacar]

Hi people,

I have checked the forums for image clipping, but it seems that no topic tackles this problem (I'm helping out my girlfriend with her MSc. thesis in psychology):

I need to cut six pieces from an image of a human face (eyebrows, eyes, nosetip and mouth) and display them (only them, rest of the pic remains hidden) but each of them on different, randomly selected position of another piece (e.g. left eyebrow on the position of the mouth, right eyebrow on the position of left eye, left eye on the position of the nose and so on). Image dimensions and coordinates of the image parts are known.

Any ideas? Thanks!
Pedja

[zoomix]

BufferedImage has a method that can be useful.

getSubimage(int x, int y, int w, int h)
Returns a subimage defined by a specified rectangular region.

I suppose you could load the original image, get the six subimages and draw them back onto a new image. Or is this not the kind of help you had in mind?

[pedjacar]

Yes, that may be the trick I'm looking for...

Is it also possible to extract elliptic part of the image with getSubimage method?

Anyway, I'll try this for now...

Thanks a lot, zoomix!