Bitmap Dimensions
A bitmap is rectangular and has a spatial dimension, which is the width and height of the image in pixels. For example, this grid could represent a very small bitmap that is 9 pixels wide and 6 pixels high or, more concisely, 9 by 6:
By convention, the shorthand dimension of a bitmap is given with the width first. This bitmap has a total of 9 x 6, or 54, pixels. I’ll often use the symbols cx and cy to refer to the width and height of a bitmap. The ‘c’ stands for count, so cx and cy are the number of pixels along the x (horizontal) and y (vertical) axes.
We can indicate a particular pixel of the bitmap in terms of x and y coordinates. ...
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