VGA image editing

[Pizus]

Hello everyone,

don't know if it is of any interest but for those poor guys using windows (that don't have access to linux conversion tools) here is a small contribution to a simple image .dat generation process for ZPUino VGA with 8bit colors.

1) select your image

2) scale it to 160x120 pixels (almost any tools out there) and save in .png

3) convert the palette (Corel Photo-paint->Image->Convert to palette and select the attached .pal file)

4) save the new .png image

5) convert the .png in .raw ( Irfanview->Save As ->(raw))

6) rename to .dat

So I hope I saved you an hour or two.

Bye

ZPUino_VGA_8bit_palette.zip

[whiteimage]

an image app can do c# batch conversion just by a click, that can save a lot of time and effors, maybe even do auto-resize.

[alvieboy]

Pizus: if you're interested in porting the conversion tool to windows... just say

 

There's a dependency on libpng, that what makes things harder. The code itself is very simple.

#include <png.h>int width, height;png_byte color_type;png_byte bit_depth;png_structp png_ptr;png_infop info_ptr;int number_of_passes;png_bytep * row_pointers;#define COLOR_BYTES 2#define COLOR_WEIGHT_R 4#define COLOR_WEIGHT_G 4#define COLOR_WEIGHT_B 4#define COLOR_SHIFT_R (COLOR_WEIGHT_B+COLOR_WEIGHT_G)#define COLOR_SHIFT_G (COLOR_WEIGHT_#define COLOR_SHIFT_B 0int readpng(const char*name){    unsigned char header[8];    int y;    FILE *f = fopen(name, "rb");    if (!f) {        perror("fopen");        return -1;    }    fread(header, 1, 8, f);    if (png_sig_cmp(header, 0, 8)) {        fprintf(stderr,"Invalid PNG file");        fclose(f);        return -1;    }    /* initialize stuff */    png_ptr = png_create_read_struct(PNG_LIBPNG_VER_STRING, NULL, NULL, NULL);    if (!png_ptr) {        fprintf(stderr,"Cannot read struct\n");        return -1;    }    info_ptr = png_create_info_struct(png_ptr);    if (!info_ptr) {        fprintf(stderr,"Cannot create struct\n");        return -1;    }    png_init_io(png_ptr, f);    png_set_sig_bytes(png_ptr, 8);    png_read_info(png_ptr, info_ptr);    width = png_get_image_width(png_ptr, info_ptr);    height = png_get_image_height(png_ptr, info_ptr);    color_type = png_get_color_type(png_ptr, info_ptr);    bit_depth = png_get_bit_depth(png_ptr, info_ptr);    number_of_passes = png_set_interlace_handling(png_ptr);    png_read_update_info(png_ptr, info_ptr);    row_pointers = (png_bytep*) malloc(sizeof(png_bytep) * height);    for (y=0; y<height; y++)        row_pointers[y] = (png_byte*) malloc(png_get_rowbytes(png_ptr,info_ptr));    png_read_image(png_ptr, row_pointers);    fclose(f);    return 0;}void process(){    FILE *outf;    outf=fopen("image.dat","wb");    if (NULL==outf)    {        perror("Cannot open file");        return;    }    if (png_get_color_type(png_ptr, info_ptr) != PNG_COLOR_TYPE_RGB) {        fprintf(stderr,"Unsupported format %d %d\n",                PNG_COLOR_TYPE_RGB, png_get_color_type(png_ptr, info_ptr));        return;    }    int x,y;    unsigned int v;    for (y=0; y<height; y++) {        png_byte* row = row_pointers[y];        for (x=0; x<width; x++) {            png_byte* ptr = &(row[x*3]);            /* printf("Pixel at position [ %d - %d ] has RGB values: %02x - %02x - %02x\n",             x, y, ptr[0], ptr[1], ptr[2]);*/            ptr[0] = (ptr[0] >> (8- COLOR_WEIGHT_R) );            ptr[1] = (ptr[1] >> (8-COLOR_WEIGHT_G));            ptr[2] = (ptr[2] >> (8-COLOR_WEIGHT_);            v = (ptr[0]<<(COLOR_SHIFT_R)) + (ptr[1]<<COLOR_SHIFT_G) + (ptr[2]<<COLOR_SHIFT_;#if COLOR_BYTES == 2            { unsigned char rv = (v>>8)&0xff;                fwrite(&rv,1,1,outf);            rv=v&0xff;            fwrite(&rv,1,1,outf);            }#else            { unsigned char rv = v&0xff;                fwrite(&rv,1,1,outf);            }#endif        }    }    fclose(outf);}int main(int argc,char **argv){    if (argc<2)        return -1;    if (readpng(argv[1])<0)        return -1;    if (width!=160 || height!=120) {        fprintf(stderr,"Image size not 160x120\n");        return -1;    }    process();    return 0;}

Alvie

[fgimage]

thank you for the codes up here. i have been researching image product and here is one i found perform the followign things.

 

image processing and image conversion

mutiple functions are provideed as well.hope it will help you in the way it does to me.

[Nana111]

Hi there

Thanks for your sharing for code.But it is harder for me to do that.Is there any image program which supports to convert image or process the image directly .

Thanks a lot.

[jezsmith41]

Given that I nearly smacked a Linux weeny very hard in the mouth this morning because of his patronising attitude and his overriding obsession with the wittering of the paranoid delusional tramp that is Richard Stallman, I am quite glad I don't use linux