What is this doing?
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(short) RGB = ((R & 248) << 8) + ((G & 252) << 3) + ((B & 248) >> 3);
ok, how does this work??? I know it converts from 24 bit -> 16 bit but how??? and the "&"''s are AND right?
quote:Original post by Nullio
(short) RGB = ((R & 248) << 8) + ((G & 252) << 3) + ((B & 248) >> 3);
ok, how does this work??? I know it converts from 24 bit -> 16 bit but how??? and the "&"''s are AND right?
Actually, they are Bitwise ANDs. In other words, they operate on the bit level. If you want ot understand a bit more, there''s an article called Bitwise Operations in C that you can check to figure it out...
Also one last thing, the numbers after the "&" signs are in Hex.
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in short: it discards the least significant few bits of each channel, then shifts it into the right place in each, then adds them. Those addition operators serve the purpose of bitwise OR.
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