plotly · antoinerg · Aug 31, 2020 · Jun 26, 2020 · Aug 13, 2020 · Aug 14, 2020
diff --git a/src/lib/index.js b/src/lib/index.js
@@ -712,6 +712,11 @@ lib.isSafari = function() {
     return IS_SAFARI_REGEX.test(window.navigator.userAgent);
 };
 
+var IS_IOS_REGEX = /iPad|iPhone|iPod/;
+lib.isIOS = function() {
+    return IS_IOS_REGEX.test(window.navigator.userAgent);
+};
+
 /**
  * Duck typing to recognize a d3 selection, mostly for IE9's benefit
  * because it doesn't handle instanceof like modern browsers

diff --git a/src/traces/image/attributes.js b/src/traces/image/attributes.js
@@ -13,15 +13,25 @@ var hovertemplateAttrs = require('../../plots/template_attributes').hovertemplat
 var extendFlat = require('../../lib/extend').extendFlat;
 var colormodel = require('./constants').colormodel;
 
-var cm = ['rgb', 'rgba', 'hsl', 'hsla'];
+var cm = ['rgb', 'rgba', 'rgba256', 'hsl', 'hsla'];
 var zminDesc = [];
 var zmaxDesc = [];
 for(var i = 0; i < cm.length; i++) {
-    zminDesc.push('For the `' + cm[i] + '` colormodel, it is [' + colormodel[cm[i]].min.join(', ') + '].');
-    zmaxDesc.push('For the `' + cm[i] + '` colormodel, it is [' + colormodel[cm[i]].max.join(', ') + '].');
+    var cr = colormodel[cm[i]];
+    zminDesc.push('For the `' + cm[i] + '` colormodel, it is [' + (cr.zminDflt || cr.min).join(', ') + '].');
+    zmaxDesc.push('For the `' + cm[i] + '` colormodel, it is [' + (cr.zmaxDflt || cr.max).join(', ') + '].');
 }
 
 module.exports = extendFlat({
+    source: {
+        valType: 'string',
+        role: 'info',
+        editType: 'calc',
+        description: [
+            'Specifies the data URI of the image to be visualized.',
+            'The URI consists of "data:image/[<media subtype>][;base64],<data>"'
+        ].join(' ')
+    },
     z: {
         valType: 'data_array',
         role: 'info',
@@ -33,10 +43,13 @@ module.exports = extendFlat({
     colormodel: {
         valType: 'enumerated',
         values: cm,
-        dflt: 'rgb',
         role: 'info',
         editType: 'calc',
-        description: 'Color model used to map the numerical color components described in `z` into colors.'
+        description: [
+            'Color model used to map the numerical color components described in `z` into colors.',
+            'If `source` is specified, this attribute will be set to `rgba256`',
+            'otherwise it defaults to `rgb`.'
+        ].join(' ')
     },
     zmin: {
         valType: 'info_array',

diff --git a/src/traces/image/calc.js b/src/traces/image/calc.js
@@ -13,15 +13,27 @@ var constants = require('./constants');
 var isNumeric = require('fast-isnumeric');
 var Axes = require('../../plots/cartesian/axes');
 var maxRowLength = require('../../lib').maxRowLength;
+var sizeOf = require('image-size');
+var dataUri = require('../../snapshot/helpers').IMAGE_URL_PREFIX;
+var Buffer = require('buffer/').Buffer;  // note: the trailing slash is important!
 
 module.exports = function calc(gd, trace) {
+    var h;
+    var w;
+    if(trace._hasZ) {
+        h = trace.z.length;
+        w = maxRowLength(trace.z);
+    } else if(trace._hasSource) {
+        var size = getImageSize(trace.source);
+        h = size.height;
+        w = size.width;
+    }
+
     var xa = Axes.getFromId(gd, trace.xaxis || 'x');
     var ya = Axes.getFromId(gd, trace.yaxis || 'y');
 
     var x0 = xa.d2c(trace.x0) - trace.dx / 2;
     var y0 = ya.d2c(trace.y0) - trace.dy / 2;
-    var h = trace.z.length;
-    var w = maxRowLength(trace.z);
 
     // Set axis range
     var i;
@@ -55,9 +67,9 @@ function constrain(min, max) {
 
 // Generate a function to scale color components according to zmin/zmax and the colormodel
 function makeScaler(trace) {
-    var colormodel = trace.colormodel;
+    var cr = constants.colormodel[trace.colormodel];
+    var colormodel = (cr.colormodel || trace.colormodel);
     var n = colormodel.length;
-    var cr = constants.colormodel[colormodel];
 
     trace._sArray = [];
     // Loop over all color components
@@ -84,3 +96,10 @@ function makeScaler(trace) {
         return c;
     };
 }
+
+// Get image size
+function getImageSize(src) {
+    var data = src.replace(dataUri, '');
+    var buff = new Buffer(data, 'base64');
+    return sizeOf(buff);
+}
diff --git a/src/traces/image/constants.js b/src/traces/image/constants.js
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@
 
 module.exports = {
     colormodel: {
+        // min and max define the numerical range accepted in CSS
+        // If z(min|max)Dflt are not defined, z(min|max) will default to min/max
         rgb: {
             min: [0, 0, 0],
             max: [255, 255, 255],
@@ -22,6 +24,15 @@ module.exports = {
             fmt: function(c) {return c.slice(0, 4);},
             suffix: ['', '', '', '']
         },
+        rgba256: {
+            colormodel: 'rgba', // because rgba256 is not an accept colormodel in CSS
+            zminDflt: [0, 0, 0, 0],
+            zmaxDflt: [255, 255, 255, 255],
+            min: [0, 0, 0, 0],
+            max: [255, 255, 255, 1],
+            fmt: function(c) {return c.slice(0, 4);},
+            suffix: ['', '', '', '']
+        },
         hsl: {
             min: [0, 0, 0],
             max: [360, 100, 100],

diff --git a/src/traces/image/defaults.js b/src/traces/image/defaults.js
@@ -11,13 +11,20 @@
 var Lib = require('../../lib');
 var attributes = require('./attributes');
 var constants = require('./constants');
+var dataUri = require('../../snapshot/helpers').IMAGE_URL_PREFIX;
 
 module.exports = function supplyDefaults(traceIn, traceOut) {
     function coerce(attr, dflt) {
         return Lib.coerce(traceIn, traceOut, attributes, attr, dflt);
     }
+    coerce('source');
+    // sanitize source to only allow for data URI representing images
+    if(traceOut.source && !traceOut.source.match(dataUri)) delete traceOut.source;
+    traceOut._hasSource = !!traceOut.source;
+
     var z = coerce('z');
-    if(z === undefined || !z.length || !z[0] || !z[0].length) {
+    traceOut._hasZ = !(z === undefined || !z.length || !z[0] || !z[0].length);
+    if(!traceOut._hasZ && !traceOut._hasSource) {
         traceOut.visible = false;
         return;
     }
@@ -26,10 +33,19 @@ module.exports = function supplyDefaults(traceIn, traceOut) {
     coerce('y0');
     coerce('dx');
     coerce('dy');
-    var colormodel = coerce('colormodel');
 
-    coerce('zmin', constants.colormodel[colormodel].min);
-    coerce('zmax', constants.colormodel[colormodel].max);
+    var cm;
+    if(traceOut._hasZ) {
+        coerce('colormodel', 'rgb');
+        cm = constants.colormodel[traceOut.colormodel];
+        coerce('zmin', (cm.zminDflt || cm.min));
+        coerce('zmax', (cm.zmaxDflt || cm.max));
+    } else if(traceOut._hasSource) {
+        traceOut.colormodel = 'rgba256';
+        cm = constants.colormodel[traceOut.colormodel];
+        traceOut.zmin = cm.zminDflt;
+        traceOut.zmax = cm.zmaxDflt;
+    }
 
     coerce('text');
     coerce('hovertext');

diff --git a/src/traces/image/event_data.js b/src/traces/image/event_data.js
@@ -15,5 +15,6 @@ module.exports = function eventData(out, pt) {
     if(pt.ya) out.yaxis = pt.ya;
     out.color = pt.color;
     out.colormodel = pt.trace.colormodel;
+    if(!out.z) out.z = pt.color;
     return out;
 };
diff --git a/src/traces/image/hover.js b/src/traces/image/hover.js
@@ -28,8 +28,15 @@ module.exports = function hoverPoints(pointData, xval, yval) {
     var nx = Math.floor((xval - cd0.x0) / trace.dx);
     var ny = Math.floor(Math.abs(yval - cd0.y0) / trace.dy);
 
+    var pixel;
+    if(trace._hasZ) {
+        pixel = cd0.z[ny][nx];
+    } else if(trace._hasSource) {
+        pixel = trace._canvas.el.getContext('2d').getImageData(nx, ny, 1, 1).data;
+    }
+
     // return early if pixel is undefined
-    if(!cd0.z[ny][nx]) return;
+    if(!pixel) return;
 
     var hoverinfo = cd0.hi || trace.hoverinfo;
     var fmtColor;
@@ -39,10 +46,11 @@ module.exports = function hoverPoints(pointData, xval, yval) {
         if(parts.indexOf('color') !== -1) fmtColor = true;
     }
 
-    var colormodel = trace.colormodel;
+    var cr = constants.colormodel[trace.colormodel];
+    var colormodel = cr.colormodel || trace.colormodel;
     var dims = colormodel.length;
-    var c = trace._scaler(cd0.z[ny][nx]);
-    var s = constants.colormodel[colormodel].suffix;
+    var c = trace._scaler(pixel);
+    var s = cr.suffix;
 
     var colorstring = [];
     if(trace.hovertemplate || fmtColor) {
@@ -64,7 +72,7 @@ module.exports = function hoverPoints(pointData, xval, yval) {
     var py = ya.c2p(cd0.y0 + (ny + 0.5) * trace.dy);
     var xVal = cd0.x0 + (nx + 0.5) * trace.dx;
     var yVal = cd0.y0 + (ny + 0.5) * trace.dy;
-    var zLabel = '[' + cd0.z[ny][nx].slice(0, trace.colormodel.length).join(', ') + ']';
+    var zLabel = '[' + pixel.slice(0, trace.colormodel.length).join(', ') + ']';
     return [Lib.extendFlat(pointData, {
         index: [ny, nx],
         x0: xa.c2p(cd0.x0 + nx * trace.dx),