BitMaP, noncompressed image file format frequent in the [Microsoft Windows] community. 1..8 bits per pixel.

[[anyone have a web address for info on bmp format?]]


[RS] has http://www.google.com/ that can bring forth many, in this case for "bmp format description":
   * http://www.daubnet.com/formats/BMP.html
   * http://www.cs.hope.edu/csci342/project1.html
   * http://www.faqs.org/faqs/graphics/fileformats-faq/part3/section-18.html
   * http://www.wotsit.org/search.asp?s=graphics


[strimj segmentation] has a reader strimj::fromBMP2 for binary .BMP files (1 bit per pixel).

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In the 1980s, [XBM] files in the Unix/X-world also often had the .bmp extension, but this is a whole different format, text files in C syntax to describe binary images as sort of a hexdump.


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See [bmp extension] - [Img] - [bmp2ppm]

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Elsewhere, BMP is used to abbreviate the Basic Multilingual Plane - the [Unicode]s from U+0000 to U+FFFD that Tcl/Tk support. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapping_of_Unicode_characters]


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