Why bmp is upside down

Foliage , Mar 5, Joined: Jun 8, Messages: 2, Location: Newcastle. I wrote my own BMP viewer years ago for a competition; it was bytes compiled. True story. You're right it's a simple problem, so it's fun rather than tedious. I'm going to try it out again for shits and giggles. Give it a go if you think it's easy. I did mine in java but I'll give it a go when I'm back home. Joined: Apr 7, Messages: Location: Sydney. Do I hear a competition starting for smallest BMP viewer?

Must use same platform, and only your source object files are measured for size? If you two are up for it, I'm in. BMP files. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

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Now live: A fully responsive profile. I'm making it so compact because I don't think it's that complicated. But then, we all have different preferences for style. Derp, why didn't I think of that? Thanks for your help! Personally I find 3-deep nested parenthesis with no whitespace to be somewhat cluttered, but whatever. Well there's your problem. For example However the actual bitmap rows will be spaced 52 bytes apart padded to next 4-byte boundary.

And, as Dan mentioned, it makes things much simpler when you can treat 2D and 3D the same. I wrote a book Ground rules Disclaimers and such My necktie's Twitter. Why are device-independent bitmaps upside down? May 25th, Raymond Chen May 31, Raymond Chen June 1, So yeah that was a fun bug to figure out. Mathematically correct, but not inverse of the actual hardware. Paste your code snippet. Cancel Ok.