READBMP

Purpose:

Reads a BMP bitmap file.

Syntax:

READBMP("filename")

"filename"

A string, the name of the target BMP file.

Returns:

An array.

Example:

readbmp(".\data\mandrill.bmp")

reads and displays the bitmap file "mandrill.bmp".

Example:

(image, cmap) = readbmp(".\data\mandrill.bmp")

reads the bitmap file into the variable image and copies the colormap into the variable cmap.

Remarks:

READBMP currently supports only uncompressed .BMP files. If the image is a 24 or 32 bit bitmap, it is automatically read as an RGBIMAGE (i.e. 24 bits).

See READIMAGE to read BMP, GIF or JPEG image files.

Ralph Sucher

Dept. of Communications Engineering

Technical University of Vienna

Gusshausstrasse 25/389

A-1040 Vienna

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