Textures

Textures

Textures on their own simply hold a buffer of pixel data and that buffers width, height and Bytes per pixel. Textures on their own aren't directly displayed to the end user, instead they can be drawn via a function mlx_texture_to_image that turns them into an image which can be displayed.

Textures vs Images

Textures:

• Can be interpreted as a painters "color palette".
• Created by loading an image file FROM disk
• Simply contains Pixels, width, height and BPP.

Images:

• Can be interpreted as a painters "canvas".
• Can be created FROM a texture!
• Carries instance data, that is, copies of itself.
• Also holds pixel data but is shared among its instances, not loaded from disk!