In the simple case, we have tightly packed RGB24 data, with three bytes per pixel. However, Graphics APIs strongly prefer striding width, so that rows of pixels are aligned and padded to multiples of 4, or even 16, bytes. Since there are multiple strides, a single stride is not always enough.
kdashg
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4 years ago
In the simple case, we have tightly packed RGB24 data, with three bytes per pixel. However, Graphics APIs strongly prefer striding width, so that rows of pixels are aligned and padded to multiples of 4, or even 16, bytes. Since there are multiple strides, a single stride is not always enough.