version: "1.0.1" name: "panel-image" description: "Deep Image panel knowledge: the panel is ThreeDeeRender's ImageMode SceneExtension, WorkerImageDecoder pipeline, camera-model projection (pinhole/fisheye), and annotation overlays."

Panel Image Skill

The Image panel is not a separate panel — it is a specialized mode of the 3D panel (ThreeDeeRender) that uses a 2D camera projection.

Architecture

ImagePanel (re-export wrapper, panels/Image/)
    │
    ▼
ThreeDeeRender (Renderer.ts)
    │
    ▼
ImageMode SceneExtension
    │
    ├── WorkerImageDecoder (JPEG/PNG/… in a Worker)
    ├── Camera-model projection (pinhole, fisheye, …)
    └── Annotation overlays (boxes, points, text)

Core Components

Image Decoding Pipeline

1. Raw image message arrives (compressed JPEG/PNG or raw bytes)
2. Sent to WorkerImageDecoder via Comlink (off the main thread)
3. Decoded to an ImageBitmap or raw pixel buffer
4. Applied as a THREE.js texture on a plane geometry
5. The camera model determines UV mapping (handles distortion)

Camera Models

• Pinhole — standard perspective projection
• Fisheye — equidistant / equisolid / stereographic projections
• Custom — extensions register additional models via installedCameraModels

CameraInfo intrinsics map pixels to 3D rays correctly.

Annotations

Overlaid on the image plane as THREE.js objects in screen space: bounding boxes (with labels), point annotations, and text overlays.

Performance Notes

• JPEG/PNG decompression is CPU-heavy → always in a Worker
• ImageBitmap enables a GPU-side decode path in supported browsers
• Large images (4K+) strain GPU memory — consider downscaling
• At high frame rates, skip decode if the previous frame isn't yet displayed

Key Files

• packages/suite-base/src/panels/ThreeDeeRender/renderables/Images/
• packages/suite-base/src/panels/ThreeDeeRender/renderables/Images/WorkerImageDecoder.ts
• packages/suite-base/src/panels/Image/ (re-export wrapper)

Skills Reference

• For 3D rendering fundamentals: load 3d-rendering skill
• For Worker patterns (image decode): load web-workers skill