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From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: name this bitmap
Keywords: zinc, bitmap, c++
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Date: 12 Oct 90 03:53:24 GMT
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Reply-To: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
Organization: Texas A&M University Agricultural Engineering Dept
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I just received some C++ libraries (Zinc Interface Library)
and they give the programmer the ability to include bitmaps
in their code pretty easily.  An example of the format follows:

  unsigned short boxBitmap[]=
  {
      8,        // Width
      4,        // Height
      0xFF00,   // ********    padded to 16 bits
      0x8100,   // *      *
      0x8100,   // *      *
      0xFF00    // ********
  };

Does this type of format have a name?  Does anyone recognize it
as a "???" bitmap?  I'd like to find a utility to do
  (xwd | pbm | ras) -> "???"
except I don't know what to look for.  Looks very similar
to X bitmaps (except XBM has 8 bit boundaries, instead of 16 bit).
Guess I could go easily from XBM->???, but that would require
some coding. (Why reinvent...?)
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James Darrell McCauley                 jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu
Dept of Ag. Engineering                          (409) 845-6484
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
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