WRITEBMP

Purpose:

Writes a Microsoft .BMP bitmap file.

WRITEBMP("filename", image, colormap)

"filename"	-	A string. The name of BMP ffile to write.
series	-	Optional. An image array. Defaults to the current Window.
colormap	-	Optional. A series, a 3xN colormap. Defaults to the current colormap.

1 if successful.

(x, y) = fxyvals(-1, 1, 0.05, -1, 1, 0.05);

W1: density(cos(x*y))

writebmp("cos2d.bmp", W1)

writes the image displayed in W1 as a bitmap file.

WRITEBMP currently supports only uncompressed .BMP files with at most 256 colors. The image is automatically scaled to 8 bits per pixel.

Ralph Sucher

Dept. of Communications Engineering

Technical University of Vienna

Gusshausstrasse 25/389

A-1040 Vienna

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