Travel through pixels in BMP

Question

Hi i have a bmp loaded to a BMP object and im requir

Answer 1

You can turn it into an easy-to-access multidimensional array of colors like so:

using System.Drawing.Imaging;
using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

// ...

Color[,] GetSection(Image img, Rectangle r) {
    Color[,] r = new Color[r.Width, r.Height]; // Create an array of colors to return

    using (Bitmap b = new Bitmap(img)) { // Turn the Image into a Bitmap
        BitmapData bd = b.LockBits(r, ImageLockMode.ReadOnly, PixelFormat.Format32bppArgb); // Lock the bitmap data
        int[] arr = new int[b.Width * b.Height - 1]; // Create an array to hold the bitmap's data
        Marshal.Copy(bd.Scan0, arr, 0, arr.Length); // Copy over the data
        b.UnlockBits(bd); // Unlock the bitmap

        for (int i = 0; i < arr.Length; i++) {
            r[i % r.Width, i / r.Width] = Color.FromArgb(arr[i]); // Copy over into a Color structure
        }
    }

    return r; // Return the result
}

You would call it like so:

Color[,] c = GetSection(myImage, new Rectangle(0, 0, 100, 100)); // Get the upper-left 100x100 pixel block in the image myImage
for (int x = 0; x < c.GetUpperBound(0); x++) {
    for (int y = 0; y < c.GetUpperBound(1); y++) {
        Color thePixel = c[x, y];
        // do something with the color
    }
}

And you could traverse the returned array quite quickly in any direction you want at all.