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Bitmap files (BMP)

BMP files are an historic (but still commonly used) file format for the windows family of operating systems.  BMP images can range from black and white (1 bit per pixel) up to 24 bit colour (16.7 million colours). While the images can be compressed, this is rarely used in practice.

A BMP file consists of either 3 or 4 parts. The first part is a header, this is followed by a information section, if the image is indexed colour then the palette follows, and last of all is the pixel data. The position of the image data with respect to the start of the file is contained in the header. Information such as the image width and height, the type of compression, the number of colours is contained in the information header.