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Alexandru Severin
Alexandru Severin

Reputation: 6228

forming letters out of binary arrays

I need to create a function that would receive an alphanumeric letter as parametter and return a NxM sized binary array, in which 1's and 0's would form the letter given.

For example, for letter A and B, the arrays could look like this:

00000110000    11111111100
00001001000    11000000011
00011001100    11000000011
00111111100    11111111110
01100000110    11000000011
11000000011    11000000011
11000000011    11000000011
11000000011    11111111111

tip: if you strech your eyes you can see the letters a bit better

The only way I know how to do this is by manually creating arrays for each character and insert them into switch-case. Which seems extremely dull and unprofessional.

Does anyone have a better idea?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 174

Answers (2)

TaW
TaW

Reputation: 54433

I have answered a similar question here.

The OP there wanted to draw circles as his 'custom pixels'.

The idea is to draw the Characters you want in the size and font you like onto an (invisible) bitmap and then read the set pixels from it and write them in your 'custom pixels', i.e. your digits.

It may sound a bit daunting, but if you look at the code provided you'll see that it really is rather straightforward and it works quite well!

Upvotes: 2

Shmwel
Shmwel

Reputation: 1697

Here, the OCR Algorithms (Optical Character Recognition) are very useful.

You can create as already was suggested a bunch of pixels and than use this kind of algs.

In case you need something that already exists : http://digit.lk/optical-character-recognitionocr-in-c/ or try this one : http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/476142/Optical-Character-Recognition

Upvotes: 1

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