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In computer graphics, the X Window System used X BitMap (XBM), a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI. The XBM format is superseded by XPM, which first appeared for X11 in 1989. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: X 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: Digital planetThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Neuronal morphometry directly from bitmap imagesCited 725 times
- Go sideways: X PixMapA closely related topic
- Go sideways: BitmapA closely related topic
🏆 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
Digital planetGeorge Beekman, Ben Beekman · 2011- 📕X Window SystemNational Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) · 1994
- 📕We're still hereTara Madison Avery, Jeanne Thornton · 2018
The Art Of OS/2 Warp ProgrammingKatheleen Panov, Larry Salomon Jr., Arthur Panov · 1995- 📕CorelDRAW X8Gary David Bouton · 2017
- 📕X Window SystemNational Institute of Standards and Technology (U.S.) · 1994
New Perspectives Computer Concepts 2016 Enhanced, ComprehensiveJune Jamrich Parsons · 2016
Multimedia demystifiedJennifer Coleman Dowling · 2012
Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.
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