How do I mirror a UIImage picture from UIImagePickerController

Question

I\'m trying to figure out if there is any way to mirror an image. For example, take a picture of someone\'s face and then cut it in half and show what their face looks like with

Answer 1

You may think, why bother with the outrageously long switch statement?

? UIImage *flip = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:image.CGImage   
?                                     scale:image.scale
?                               orientation:(image.imageOrientation + 4) % 8];

And if you take a look at the enum you can see that modular arithmetic would do:

typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, UIImageOrientation) {
    UIImageOrientationUp,            // default orientation
    UIImageOrientationDown,          // 180 deg rotation
    UIImageOrientationLeft,          // 90 deg CCW
    UIImageOrientationRight,         // 90 deg CW
    UIImageOrientationUpMirrored,    // as above but image mirrored along other axis. horizontal flip
    UIImageOrientationDownMirrored,  // horizontal flip
    UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored,  // vertical flip
    UIImageOrientationRightMirrored, // vertical flip
};

But this code is too clever. You should write a function with an explicit switch statement instead. E.g.

UIImageOrientation mirroredImageOrientation(UIImageOrientation orientation) {
    switch(orientation) {
        case UIImageOrientationUp: return UIImageOrientationUpMirrored;
        case UIImageOrientationDown: return UIImageOrientationDownMirrored;
        case UIImageOrientationLeft: return UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored;
        case UIImageOrientationRight: return UIImageOrientationRightMirrored;
        case UIImageOrientationUpMirrored: return UIImageOrientationUp;
        case UIImageOrientationDownMirrored: return UIImageOrientationDown;
        case UIImageOrientationLeftMirrored: return UIImageOrientationLeft;
        case UIImageOrientationRightMirrored: return UIImageOrientationRight;
        default: return orientation;
    }
}

And use the function like this:

UIImage *flip = [UIImage imageWithCGImage:image.CGImage   
                                    scale:image.scale
                              orientation:mirroredImageOrientation(image.imageOrientation)];

I've added question marks to indicate questionable, smelly code. Similar to The Practice of Programming