In my algorithm, I need to create an information output. I need to write a boolean matrix into a bmp file. It must be a monocromic image, where pixels are white if the matrix on such element is true. Main problem is the bmp header and how to write this.
See if this works for you... In this code, I had 3 2-dimensional arrays, called red,green and blue. Each one was of size [width][height], and each element corresponded to a pixel - I hope this makes sense!
FILE *f;
unsigned char *img = NULL;
int filesize = 54 + 3*w*h; //w is your image width, h is image height, both int
img = (unsigned char *)malloc(3*w*h);
memset(img,0,3*w*h);
for(int i=0; i<w; i++)
{
for(int j=0; j<h; j++)
{
x=i; y=(h-1)-j;
r = red[i][j]*255;
g = green[i][j]*255;
b = blue[i][j]*255;
if (r > 255) r=255;
if (g > 255) g=255;
if (b > 255) b=255;
img[(x+y*w)*3+2] = (unsigned char)(r);
img[(x+y*w)*3+1] = (unsigned char)(g);
img[(x+y*w)*3+0] = (unsigned char)(b);
}
}
unsigned char bmpfileheader[14] = {'B','M', 0,0,0,0, 0,0, 0,0, 54,0,0,0};
unsigned char bmpinfoheader[40] = {40,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0, 0,0,0,0, 1,0, 24,0};
unsigned char bmppad[3] = {0,0,0};
bmpfileheader[ 2] = (unsigned char)(filesize );
bmpfileheader[ 3] = (unsigned char)(filesize>> 8);
bmpfileheader[ 4] = (unsigned char)(filesize>>16);
bmpfileheader[ 5] = (unsigned char)(filesize>>24);
bmpinfoheader[ 4] = (unsigned char)( w );
bmpinfoheader[ 5] = (unsigned char)( w>> 8);
bmpinfoheader[ 6] = (unsigned char)( w>>16);
bmpinfoheader[ 7] = (unsigned char)( w>>24);
bmpinfoheader[ 8] = (unsigned char)( h );
bmpinfoheader[ 9] = (unsigned char)( h>> 8);
bmpinfoheader[10] = (unsigned char)( h>>16);
bmpinfoheader[11] = (unsigned char)( h>>24);
f = fopen("img.bmp","wb");
fwrite(bmpfileheader,1,14,f);
fwrite(bmpinfoheader,1,40,f);
for(int i=0; i<h; i++)
{
fwrite(img+(w*(h-i-1)*3),3,w,f);
fwrite(bmppad,1,(4-(w*3)%4)%4,f);
}
free(img);
fclose(f);