I'm going through the Golang tutorial and I'm a little bit confused as to what it is doing with some of the values in the slices exercise. https://tour.golang.org/moretypes/18
Here is the code that I am confused with:
A value of 0 is a perfectly blue pixel and a value of 255 is a perfectly white pixel. So what is happening here when the value displayed is some form of x*y
(I did /20
to make the image a little bit bigger and easier to see).
If you follow the image horizontally, you will see that at some point in the process, the ever increasing x and y values seem to revert to blue (0 value) If I type a static value like 256
in the return I get a compile error. So it obviously does not allow the numbers to go off the scale
and revert to 0 or anything. So how does it get the blue curves in the picture?
imported source here: https://github.com/golang/tour/blob/master/pic/pic.go#L15
package main
import "golang.org/x/tour/pic"
func Pic(dx, dy int) [][]uint8 {
//First, the array has to be made so we can put some values in it later
//This only makes the second dimension of the array ([[uint8 dy]])?
image := make([][]uint8, dy)
//The inputs into the function are Int's, so it is ok to have a non uint8
//loop initializer
for x := 0; x < dy; x++ {
//once we are in the loop we have to make the first dimension of the array
//based on the dx values
image[x] = make([]uint8, dx)
for y := 0; y < dx; y++ {
//This is a function +to assign the pixel values to the array
image[x][y] = uint8((x * y) /20)
}
}
return image
}
func main() {
pic.Show(Pic)
}