DLP2000: structured light code 8bit image rather than RGB

Hello Michael,

Could you please clarify exactly what you mean by an 8-bit image? Are you looking to project an 8-bit image with just a single color LED? 

Thanks,

Kyle

Sorry, So I would like to use the smallest image file possible and seeing how the images I'm sending to the DLP are black and white, I would like to send an 8 bit representation of the image. As an RGB formatted file would be 640x360x24 and an 8 bit formatted image is only 640x360x8.  

Currently the structured light code has the image being sent over as three seperate values for each pixel, RGB. I would rather just send 0 or 255, save a little transfer time between the BBB and the EVM. 

So I was wondering if there is an 8bit mode that would allow me to do this? Documentation says that the system can run in 8, 16, 18, and 24-bit bus options, but the color bit depth supported is only RGB888, RGB666, or RGB565; 24, 18, or 16 bits respectively.   

I wanted to ask if there was a way to transfer an 8bit image. I know documentation doesn't say that it does, but i wanted to ask if there was something else I could do. 

With that being said, if I wanted to scale to RGB565 to reduce the image, how would I go about doing that. I'm assuming the write function is the same as what the structured light code is currently using, but I would need to change the evm mode? Looking at the programming documentation it looks like I would need to updated the Pixel Data format select register <2.4.1.5>  to 0? Would that be the case?