Desperate for help! Creation of image in C

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October 16th, 2012, 11:44 PM

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Desperate for help! Creation of image in C

I'm having to write a program for homework using the C language that will create a ppm file. The ppm file must have a diagonal line going from the top left corner to the bottom right corner. On the top of the line, the image must be blue, and under the line, the image must be green. The user of the program will specify the width and height of the ppm image.

I've written a program that will create a ppm image before, except they consisted of horizontal/vertical stripes of color. I am completely stuck on this with the line being diagonal.

Can someone help point me in the right direction? I've got the program to make the top half (top rectangle of the image) one color, and the bottom half (bottom rectangle of the image) another color. I just don't know how to make this line separating the two colors diagonal.

Thank you so much in advance!

October 17th, 2012, 12:21 AM

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Code:

for ( green = 0 ; green < midpoint ; green++ ) { }
for ( blue = midpoint+1 ; blue < width ; blue++ ) { }
midpoint++;  // for a square

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October 17th, 2012, 05:38 AM

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Thank you for your quick reply!

I understand how to divide the image up into rectangular sections. What I'm having trouble with is dividing it into two halves diagonally. The final image needs to be rectangular (dimensions based on user input which I already have the code for) with a diagonal line going from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.

Thank you!

October 17th, 2012, 08:59 AM

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You could make a less than table

Code:

   i. 8    NB. input lines are indented as a 3 space prompt
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
   < table i. 8
┌─┬───────────────┐
│<│0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7│
├─┼───────────────┤
│0│0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1│
│1│0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1│
│2│0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1│
│3│0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1│
│4│0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1│
│5│0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1│
│6│0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1│
│7│0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0│
└─┴───────────────┘
   |. 'barg'
grab
   |. </~ i. 8
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 1 1 1
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1



   ((+:@:=) + |.@:(</~)) i. 8
2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 2 0 0 0 0 0 1
0 0 2 0 0 0 1 1
0 0 0 2 0 1 1 1
0 0 0 0 3 1 1 1
0 0 0 1 1 3 1 1
0 0 1 1 1 1 3 1
0 1 1 1 1 1 1 3

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October 17th, 2012, 10:59 AM

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Quote:

The final image needs to be rectangular (dimensions based on user input which I already have the code for) with a diagonal line going from the top left corner to the bottom right corner.

So if the rectangle was 20 wide, and 10 high, can you work out how much to increment midpoint by on each iteration of the loop?

This is maths, not programming.

Desperate for help! Creation of image in C

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