Pset 4 resize - problems with resizing

Question

Can anyone help point out what's wrong with my resize algorithm? I have researched and tried out many ways to do it and watched the walkthrough so many times. Here's the resizing part of my code and note that bi.biWidth is the resized width.

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// temporary storage
RGBTRIPLE triple;
RGBTRIPLE *scanline = malloc(bi.biWidth * sizeof(RGBTRIPLE));

// iterate over infile's scanlines
for (int i = 0; i < abs(oldheight); i++)
{
    //iterate over pixel line by line
    for (int pixel = 0; pixel < oldwidth; pixel++)
    {
        // read RGB triple from infile
        fread(&triple, sizeof(RGBTRIPLE), 1, inptr);

        // store in array n times to resize horizontally
        for (int c = 0; c < n; c++)
        {
            scanline[pixel + n] = triple;
        }
    }
    // skip over padding, if any
    fseek(inptr, oldpadding, SEEK_CUR);

    //resize vertically
    for (int v = 0; v < n; v++)
    {
        // iterate over pixels in array and write it n times
        for (int j = 0; j < sizeof(scanline); j++)
        {
            fwrite(&scanline[j], sizeof(RGBTRIPLE), 1, outptr);
            // add padding
            for (int k = 0; k < newpadding; k++)
            {
                fputc(0x00, outptr);
            }
        }
    }
}

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Answer 1

This line has a couple of problems:

        scanline[pixel + n] = triple;

Let's say that the scale factor, n, is 3. Now, let's walk through what happens. The code starts by reading the first pixel in a line and stores it in triple. Next, the for loop to write to the array executes. In the first pass, c=0, and the line above writes the first pixel, triple, to scanline[0+3], or scanline[3]. The loop runs 2 more times and rewrites the same pixel to the same position. That's the first problem.

The second problem then shows up. The code loops back around and reads the second pixel, and then tries to write that pixel to scanline[1+3], or scanline[4] a total of 3 times.

Don't understand the second problem yet? Let's remove the first problem to highlight it. Say that the line above were this instead:

       scanline[pixel + c] = triple;  

It would write the first pixel to scanline[0], scanline[1], and scanline[2]. Fine so far, but then it loops around and writes the next pixel to scanline[1+0], or scanline[1], followed by scanline[2] and scanline[3]. It should have written to positions 3, 4, and 5 instead of overwriting 1, 2, and 3.

These are the major problems. There may be more, but this should get you going.

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