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Reading and writing farbfeld images using C#

Normally when I load textures in OpenGL, I have a PNG file which I load into a `System.Drawing.Bitmap` and from there I pull out the bytes and pass to `glTexImage2D`. It works, but seems a bit silly having to create the bitmap in the first place. For this reason, I was toying with the idea of creating a very simple image format so I could just read the data directly when I came across a simple format named farbfeld. This article describes a basic encoder/decoder for C# along with my own thoughts.

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Richard Moss