that brings back painful memories of typing lines and lines of DATA keywords from library books into GW BASIC.....
I'm an embedded engineer, so it's how I would encode a sprite for displaying an LCD character, it seemed natural to do it this way!
ETA: I've fixed the image transparency and the frigate sprite is less fat, thanks!
Very cool. It’s been a while, but years ago I remember using a nice little tool that somebody had made that let you export BMP pictures to an array you could drop into an Arduino C program for displaying on an RGB LED matrix.