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Re: Help needed with C stuff again

• Posted by Mark Brown <mabrown at SENET.COM.AU> Nov 20, 2000
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Hi David.

Thanks for the excellent answer.

I think I understand. I peek a WORD from "pixels+(y*width+x)" to get
the index into the palette and then I peek a WORD from "pallette + index"
to get the actual 16-bit RGB value?

Now if only I could work out why all 4 wheels in Landrover6 are spinning
around each other insted of each wheel spinning on its own axis!

Examples 1 to 5 worked so well. Sigh.....

All the best.

Mark



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Cuny" <dcuny at LANSET.COM>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 9:04 PM
Subject: Re: Help needed with C stuff again


> Mark Brown wrote:
>
> > WORD color16=palette[pixels[y*width+x]];
>
> Here's an example: imagine that you wanted to store all the pixels on the
> screen in a 1 dimensional array. For simplicity, imagine that the screen
was
> 5x5:
>
>    00 01 02 03 04
>    05 06 07 08 09
>    10 11 12 13 14
>    15 16 17 18 19
>    20 21 22 23 24
>
> Since most of the computing world starts counting from zero, I've also
done
> so in the example.
> The first pixel on the second line is #05, the second pixel on the third
> line is #11, and so on. The general formula for finding the index of a
given
> pixel is:
>
>    ( y * screenWidth ) + x
>
> That obviously corresponds to the formula:
>
>    y*width+x
>
> So what's actually *stored* in that pixel's location? Color information,
of
> course. The actual color isn't stored there, it's just an index to the
> palette. For example, here's a box drawn on our example screen. The box's
> edges are color #1, and it's filled with color #2, and everything else is
> color 0:
>
>    1 1 1 1 0
>    1 2 2 1 0
>    1 2 2 1 0
>    1 1 1 1 0
>    0 0 0 0 0
>
> Internally, this looks like this:
>
>    pixel[00] = 1 -- (0,0)
>    pixel[01] = 1 -- (1,0)
>    pixel[02] = 1 -- (2,0)
>    pixel[03] = 1 -- (3,0)
>    pixel[04] = 0 -- (4,0)
>    pixel[05] = 1 -- (0,1)
>    pixel[06] = 2 -- (1,1)
>    pixel[07] = 2 -- (2,1)
>    pixel[08] = 1 -- (3,1)
>    pixel[09] = 0 -- (4,1)
>    pixel[10] = 1 -- (0,2)
>    pixel[11] = 2 -- (1,2)
>    pixel[12] = 2 -- (2,2)
>    pixel[13] = 1 -- (3,2)
>    pixel[14] = 0 -- (4,2)
>    pixel[15] = 1 -- (0,3)
>    pixel[16] = 1 -- (1,3)
>    pixel[17] = 1 -- (2,3)
>    pixel[18] = 1 -- (3,3)
>    pixel[19] = 0 -- (4,3)
>    pixel[20] = 0 -- (0,4)
>    pixel[21] = 0 -- (1,4)
>    pixel[22] = 0 -- (2,4)
>    pixel[23] = 0 -- (3,4)
>    pixel[24] = 0 -- (4,4)
>
> So you can get the index of the color for a pixel by writing:
>
>    pixels[y*width+x]
>
> That's fine and good, but what color is color #1? To find that out, you
need
> to look in the palette:
>
>    palette[1] -> color #1, in color16 format
>
> What's color16 format? I don't know, but a color component is typically
made
> up of some mixture of red, green and blue. If you have 16 bits to use over
> three color elements, that's five bits per color element. So you can have
> 2^5 (or 2^4, it's late and I can't remember) shades of each color
component
> to mix together.
>
> To recap, to figure out what color is being displayed at a given pixel
> location:
>
>    y*width+x
>
> gets the offset to a particular pixel;
>
>    pixels[y*width+x]
>
> retrieves the index into the palette of the color that's set for that
pixel;
>
>    palette[pixels[y*width+x]]
>
> retrieves the color16 value from the palette. As I mentioned, I don't have
> enough information available to decode the color16 value.
>
> I hope this helps!
>
> -- David Cuny