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Everything about Bitmap
Computing term
In computing, a bitmap graphic is an image formed from a grid of pixels, each assigned a color value. A GIF is an example of a graphics image file that uses a bitmap. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: BitmapA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Multi-laboratory performance assessment of diffuse optics instruments: the BitMap exerciseInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Bit-mapped graphicsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Neuronal morphometry directly from bitmap imagesCited 725 times
- Go sideways: Image file formatA closely related topic
- Go sideways: BMP file formatA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A series of bits that represents a rasterized graphic image, each pixel being represented as a group of bits.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Neuronal morphometry directly from bitmap images
Identification of bitmap compression history: jpeg detection and quantizer estimation
Optimizing bitmap indices with efficient compression
Tree bitmap
Voxel-based fabrication through material property mapping: A design method for bitmap printing
Bitmap Algorithms for Counting Active Flows on High-Speed Links
Better bitmap performance with Roaring bitmaps
Color image retrieval technique based on color features and image bitmap
🆕 Influential since 2022
Multi-laboratory performance assessment of diffuse optics instruments: the BitMap exercise
Verifiable and Dynamic Multi-Keyword Search Over Encrypted Cloud Data Using Bitmap
Reconstruction of Machine-Made Shapes from Bitmap Sketches
The Bitmap Decryption Model on Interleaved SRAM Using Multiple-Bit Upset Analysis
Multi-Volume Variable Scale Bitmap Data Object Classification Algorithm Architectural Concrete Color Difference Detection
📚 Books worth reading
Bit-mapped graphicsSteve Rimmer · 1990- 📕Windows Bit-Mapped GraphicsSteve Rimmer · 1993
The Revolutionary Guide to Bit Mapped Graphics With Cd-RomControl Zed · 1994
Bitmapped graphics programming in C++Marv Luse · 1993
Encyclopedia of graphics file formatsJames D. Murray · 1994
Real-time animation tool-kit in C++Rex E. Bradford · 1995- 📕Bit-mapped graphicsSteven William Rimmer · 1993
- 📕Supercharged bitmapped graphicsSteve Rimmer · 1992
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