How I can make .BMP file in grasshopper?

Grasshopper
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Hi everyone !
I would like to make some geometric file and save in a .BMP file there is any one have a suggestion ?
Thank you

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Do you want to draw a bitmap image from scratch, or capture the Rhino viewport, or… ?

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Hi David,
both of them :slight_smile:
I would like to make a script that create a .BMP …do you have any idea?

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hi… thank you

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I still don’t know what exactly you’re after. A viewport capture? A viewport capture with additional stuff drawn on top? An image with custom drawn elements, one of which is a viewport?

Maybe it would help if you uploaded a sketch of what you’re looking for.

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You could also use animate slider in Grasshopper
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Then

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Or -viewCaptureToFile in Rhinoceros …

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Hi thank you for both of you, maybe I was not so clear …

I would like to do .bmp file (like in the pics’) for a Jacquard Knitting in grasshopper . That i could to cooler geometric… and knitting them after.
:slight_smile:

Many Tnx this project is super impotent to me…

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Okay so you’re looking for a way to specify individual pixels in an image and then save that image as a file. Grasshopper itself doesn’t allow to create images through components, but you can get a plugin via the Rhino _TestPackageManager command called imaging-library. This plugin adds some components to the Display.Image panel for drawing shapes and saving bitmaps:

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However it’s not really the approach you need, as you’re not drawing shapes, you’re setting pixels. Of course you could just draw one-pixel rectangles with those tools, but there are more efficient approaches.

I’ll upload a C# script component which allows you to generate images by specifying width, height, and a list of colours per pixel.

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createpixelimage.gh (10.3 KB)

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The file repeats the colours you provide, so you’ll have to provide as many colours as you have pixels to make a non-repeating pattern.

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And if you want to see live what David has done. Do that (not very fast on my PC. I did that on multiple mesh to have the pixelated effect. The orientation is not the same because mesh plane is not oriented as bitmap. But that could be flipped.

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And if you want tileable texture, you can draw on a torus. I put an example here with a noise. The noise could be deformed with torus twist. You can select greyed image or balck and white image.

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createpixelimage_LD2.gh (22.9 KB)

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Hi David thank very much … it’s really helpful :black_heart:

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It can be made a lot faster if performance turns out to be a problem. But for the small images you posted it probably doesn’t matter much.

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Getting a strange error when I load this file now…

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Looks like the culprit is image.Save(Filename);, the error goes away commenting this line.

I am running Rhino version:
Version 6 SR21
(6.21.19351.9141, 12/17/2019)

And Grasshopper Version Tuesday 17 Dec 2019 (1.0.0007).

Thanks!

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Are you saving to a location that you are allowed to access?

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Oh, I actually figured this out a while ago. Turns out, if the stream used to read/generate the image is closed before writing it, bad things happen.

The problem: https://stackoverflow.com/a/336396/1934487

A sample project where Bitmaps are successfully written to the system: https://github.com/garciadelcastillo/runwayml-experiments/tree/master/2020.03.18_GH-Runway-AST

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