Typical Benjimawoo...

As usual, I'm having trouble at the vey first stage of writing my little face recogniser. I do this every time. I've got stuff written in my head for parsing and identifying face elements fine. Not a problem. I can take a character map (if that's what it's called) and split it down into individual faces, and further down into individual elements (Noses etc.)

What I can't figure out how to do (at the moment) is convert the file from a text file to a bitmap. I've had many thoughts on he best way to do this, but they all seem not only a bit long-winded, but also a bit overcomplicated.

I'll keep thinking...