Bitmap

A bitmaps storing a pixel data of predefined dimensions (x,y). A bitmap describes what components each pixel carries, as well as how these components laid out in memory (byte array) to access them.

Bitmaps should contain a following information:

• color component types:
  • RGB color channels
  • RGBA
  • Intensity (grayscale, alpha channel etc)
  • Grayscale intensity and Aplha

• component ordering (if there are more than one).

• A component values can be stored in multiple ways:
  • 1, 8, 16, 32 bits per component, representing an unsigned integer values
  • float
  • compressed formats, like R5G5B6? etc

• scanline stride (a number of bytes between each scan line)

There are numerous ways how one could encode pixel data, but initially we want to support most commonly used ones.