[comp.graphics] Seeking bitmap image representation and scaling algorithms

mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau) (12/08/86)

I'm looking for pointers to commonly used (or "standard") formats
for representing monochrome bitmap images in arbitrary resolution
(with the resolution encoded in the image format), with or without
data compression.  Any ideas?

Also, I'm interested in finding efficient bitmap scaling algorithms,
especially for scaling by non-integral factors (from one arbitrary
resolution to another).  References to such algorithms would be greatly 
appreciated.  (Even more interesting would be scaling algorithms
that attempt to preserve greyscale information, but I suspect that's
too hard a problem to solve in the general case.)
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