How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

[anuragkhanna8@gmail.com]

Hi,

I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.
Thanks!!

[Nick Keighley]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.

this is off-topic to comp.lang.c you need to identify what platform
(OS, graphic package etc) you are using and post to a news group where
that is relevant.

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[Ico]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.

This depends completely on the color format used, there are too many
possibilities here. Assuming you are not doing any colorspace conversion
(eg RGB<->YUV, etc), a few shifts and ors would be sufficient.

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[Simon Biber]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

Hi,
>
I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.
Thanks!!

You need to rigidly specify the actual bitwise format for both the
16-bit and the 32-bit form.

Your subject said the 16-bit rgb value was 565, so I have assumed it's
the binary value rrrrrggggggbbbb b. Splitting this into nybbles helps for
reading off the masks required in hexadecimal.

You said nothing about the 32-bit format. Common formats include BGR0,
RGB0, 0RGB, 0BGR. In the code below I have assumed 0RGB. Changing this
is easy, just modify the shift amounts in the last line.

unsigned long rgb16_to_rgb32( unsigned short a)
{
/* 1. Extract the red, green and blue values */

/* from rrrr rggg gggb bbbb */
unsigned long r = (a & 0xF800) >11;
unsigned long g = (a & 0x07E0) >5;
unsigned long b = (a & 0x001F);

/* 2. Convert them to 0-255 range:
There is more than one way. You can just shift them left:
to 00000000 rrrrr000 gggggg00 bbbbb000
r <<= 3;
g <<= 2;
b <<= 3;
But that means your image will be slightly dark and
off-colour as white 0xFFFF will convert to F8,FC,F8
So instead you can scale by multiply and divide: */
r = r * 255 / 31;
g = g * 255 / 63;
b = b * 255 / 31;
/* This ensures 31/31 converts to 255/255 */

/* 3. Construct your 32-bit format (this is 0RGB): */
return (r << 16) | (g << 8) | b;

/* Or for BGR0:
return (r << 8) | (g << 16) | (b << 24);
*/
}


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Simon.

[Bart]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

Hi,
>
I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.

Platform-specific questions are off-topic in comp.lang.c, but I'll try
to give a general answer anyway.

You wrote (in your subject) that you have a 16 bit value that is split
into 5, 6, and 5 bit fields respectively. Think about the values that
can be represented using 5 and 6 bits. With 5 bits you have 32 possible
values and with 6 bits you have 64 possible values. With a 32 bit value
split into four components (that's usually how it's done) you have 8
bits for each field, which gives you 256 possible values.

Now think of the representable values as a range going from minimum to
maximum. The maximum value that van be stored in a 5 bit unsigned
number is 0x1F. But the maximum value that can be stored in an 8 bit
unsigned number is 0xFF. If you just extend 0x1F with zeroes so that it
becomes an 8 bit number it will hardly represent the maximum possible
value. That's why just extending the values will not give the expected
result.

What you need to do is to interpolate the value that you have over the
range of values that you are extending to (or vice versa). In C it
would be something like:

color = (unsigned)(fina l_range * ((double)color) / initial_range);

Regards,
Bart.

[Simon Biber]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

Bart wrote:

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

>Hi,
>>
>I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
>color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
>know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.

>
Platform-specific questions are off-topic in comp.lang.c, but I'll try
to give a general answer anyway.

It's not platform specific. These are just bit manipulations, and it's
completely reasonable to do them in portable, standard C.

As for the question of exactly which layout is required, that depends on
what the OP intends to do with the data after it is converted. If it's
to write a binary file, then the file type matters. For instance, BMP
and PPM file formats use different RGB orderings.

[snip good info]

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Simon.

[christian]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

Hi,
>
I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.
Thanks!!

You can't. The 565 rgb format is just one unholy mess. You can't even
represent grey values in 565 format. Whoever came up with that format
should be shot, hanged, and fed to crocodiles, but not necessarily in
that order.

Try using 555 format instead, possibly with an alpha bit.

[Bart]

Re: How to convert 16 - bit 565 rgb value to 32 bit

christian wrote:

anuragkhanna8@g mail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am trying to convert a 16 bit rgb value to 32 bit, however the new
color generated is different from the 16 bit rgb data. Please let me
know the formula to convert an 16 bit rgb data to 32 bit rgb data.
Thanks!!

>
You can't. The 565 rgb format is just one unholy mess. You can't even
represent grey values in 565 format. Whoever came up with that format
should be shot, hanged, and fed to crocodiles, but not necessarily in
that order.

You don't know what you're talking about. Grey values are simply r=x,
g=2x, b=x. The double granularity for green is due to the better green
perception in the human eye.

Try using 555 format instead, possibly with an alpha bit.

The 555 format typically just ignores the extra bit. Talk about coming
up with a good format!

Anyway, that's all off-topic in comp.lang.c.

Regards,
Bart.