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Single Buffer Acquisition

If the user chooses to define a single surface cluster, the surface will be written to by the grabber at each new acquisition phase, irrespective of any possible processing task applied to the image contained in the buffer. This can be satisfactory for simple applications.

Single buffer acquisition

The image processing task 1 operates on data from image issued at acquisition phase 1 and at acquisition phase 2.

This adverse effect is called surface alteration. This can be acceptable or not depending on the application.