Re: BMP loading

[A+A Adler]

On 16 Sep 1999, Bostjan JERKO wrote:
> Anybody know of possibility to load BMP image in octave to get image
> data as matrix ?

Try this

   fid= popen('bmptoppm /path/to/file.bmp','r');
   strcmp( fgetl(fid),'P6') || error('bailing');
   [wid,len]=sscanf( fgetl(fid) , '%d %d' , 'C');
   fgetl(fid);
   data=  reshape( fread(fid), 3,  wid* len );
   red=   reshape( data(1,:), wid, len)';
   green= reshape( data(2,:), wid, len)';
   blue = reshape( data(3,:), wid, len)';
   fclose(fid);

Caveats:

1. This has almost no error checking
2. This has not been debugged
3. You need to be on UNIX with the libgr tools installed
4. I've build a proper imread/imwrite functionality that
   will do this, I should be able to contribute it soon
   to octave-sources
   
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Andy Adler,                               address@hidden



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