BMP Viewer

This is a simple MacOS/Linux application to view, manipulate, and compress BMP Files!

Key Features:

• View 1, 4, 8, and 24-bit Bitmap images
• Adjust scaling, brightness, and color channels in real time
• Compress bitmaps to custom JMP format
• Lightweight cross-platform application

Demo

Getting Started

1. Download the latest release for your OS
2. Open and extract the downloaded .zip
3. Run the application
4. View and compress bitmaps!

A selection of sample images are available in assets/sample-input

Developer Information:

Note [Optional]: Run this application in a python virtual environment to ensure all dependencies are installed properly. Create environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate # MacOS/Linux
venv\Scripts\activate # Windows

1. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the program:

python3 main_window.py <filepath> # optional filepath argument

3. Run compression tests:

python3 test_compression.py

This app uses PySide6 for GUI elements, and image manipulation is done efficiently with numpy