Generate a 1920 x 1080 graphic with 2,073,600 unique colours

Question

Challenge:

Write a program that outputs a graphic file 1920 pixels wide by 1080 pixels high. Every one of the 2,073,600 pixels within the graphic must be a unique colour and no colour values should be repeated. The colours should be specified in RGB and start at 0,0,0 and count upwards in sequence towards 255,255,255. You'll find a 1920 x 1080 pixel image will contain lots of blacks, blues and greens only.

For example, (a smaller cut down version). If the height was set to 5 and the width was set to 5 a 25 pixel square graphic would be output and each pixel would be a unique colour. The RGB colour array would look like this:

Array (
[0] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 0
    )

[1] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 1
    )

[2] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 2
    )

[3] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 3
    )

[4] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 4
    )

[5] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 5
    )

[6] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 6
    )

[7] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 7
    )

[8] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 8
    )

[9] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 9
    )

[10] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 10
    )

[11] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 11
    )

[12] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 12
    )

[13] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 13
    )

[14] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 14
    )

[15] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 15
    )

[16] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 16
    )

[17] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 17
    )

[18] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 18
    )

[19] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 19
    )

[20] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 20
    )

[21] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 21
    )

[22] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 22
    )

[23] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 23
    )

[24] => Array
    (
        [0] => 0
        [1] => 0
        [2] => 24
    )

)

Rules:

• Any programming language can be used to generate the image.

• The answer with the most upvotes wins.

• Colours must only be used once.

• Pixel in position 0,0 must start with colour 0,0,0

• Colours must fall within the true color 24 bit range.

• Image must be 1920 x 1080 pixels in size.

• Colours must be in RGB format.

• Using a library to output the image is ok.

• Output must be in the format of a graphic file e.g. output.png

• Output as text which represents the colour values doesn't count, the code must output a graphic file.

• File size of the output image doesn't matter.

• You must be able to view the output by opening it as a graphic in the chrome web browser.

I would be impressed if you mange to do this with really short code, your program also outputs the time in elapsed seconds taken to generate the image embedded within the image itself overlaid on the sequential pixels, your program outputs the image within 10 seconds. I would be really impressed if your program outputs the image within 1 second.

Answer 1

Python - 660+ bytes

Incremental Version

Full Size: http://www.pictureshack.net/images/57626_all_colors.png (4.52MB)

This is an image based on a Julia Set fractal. Each color is added to the image incrementally, although there is a substantial amount of pre-calculation.

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Luminosity Version

Full size: http://www.pictureshack.net/images/95389_all_colors4.png (5.24MB)

I've added an option to iterate each color by luminosity, rather than by index. This doesn't qualify as "counting up" from zero, but this seems to be a lax requirement. It's interesting that these two orderings expose completely different structures in the image. To use this, set the use_luminosity flag to True.

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Source

Requires PIL.

Be warned: this will take several minutes to execute. Using PyPy with Pillow runs in about one fifth the time of CPython with PIL, so I would recommend that, if possible.

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw

use_luminosity = True

dim = (1920,1080)

img = Image.new('RGB', dim)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)

xstart = -.776707
ystart = -.134663

a = []

xd = 1.6 / 8192 / dim[0]
yd = 0.9 / 8192 / dim[1]

for x in range(dim[0]):
  print x
  for y in range(dim[1]):
    z = d = complex(xstart + x*xd, ystart + y*yd)
    c = 0
    while abs(z) < 2 and c < 5000:
      z = z*z + d
      c += 1
    a += [(c, -abs(z), x, y)]

a = a[1:]
a.sort(reverse = True)

t = [(i>>16, 255&i>>8, 255&i) for i in range(1, dim[0]*dim[1])]
if use_luminosity:
  t.sort(key = lambda c: c[0]*3 + c[1]*10 + c[2], reverse = True)

r = 0
for c,d,x,y in a:
  draw.point((x,y), t[r])
  r += 1

img.show()

Edit: updated so that #000000 is at the upper-left, as specified.
Edit: added a flag to iterate colors by luminosity.
Edit: switched to native complex calculations, and integer luminosity weights, which are slightly faster.

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Solutions I worked on before the primary criterion became popularity-contest

PHP - 161 bytes

<?header('Content-type: image/bmp');
ob_start();
echo'BM'.pack('I5S2',0,0,26,12,70780800,1,24);
for(;$i=($i-256)%2073601;)echo pack('CS',~$i,~$i>>8);
ob_end_flush();

This is going for fastest output possible. No library is used, just a pre-computed header, and direct byte output. Runs in less than 2s on my comp. By incrementing by 256 rather than 1, it produces a pseudo-gradient effect, with no real computation needed. The only downfall is that (0, 0) is not black, but the result looks a lot nicer.

ob_start(); and ob_end_flush(); aren't strictly necessary, but buffering the output makes it run a lot faster.

Other interesting increments include:

17: http://i.stack.imgur.com/ieyyZ.png
103: http://i.stack.imgur.com/WD2wa.png
326: http://i.stack.imgur.com/c4DSF.png
557: http://i.stack.imgur.com/eTTWE.png
943: http://i.stack.imgur.com/7rrmR.png
2125: http://i.stack.imgur.com/Ct1kM.png

And many others. Although, most patterns that look like anything resemble stripes of some sort

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PHP - 105 bytes

<?=BM.pack(I5S2,header('Content-type:'),0,26,12,70780800,1,24);
for(;$i<2073600;)echo pack(CS,$i,$i++>>8);

Reckless disregard version.

• Given a broken Content-type header, Chrome will do its best to figure out what it was sent. In this case, it correctly identifies it as image/bmp. The lastest versions of FireFox and IE are also able to fix the broken header.
• The barewords BM, I5S2, and CS will generate a NOTICE error. To prevent corruption of the image, error reporting in php.ini will need to be set to prevent this (e.g. error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE).
• No output buffering. The image is constructed 3 bytes at a time, which is noticeably slower.
• The point (0, 0) is considered to be the lower left, rather than upper left.

---

PHP-CLI - 83 bytes

<?=BM.pack(I5S2,0,0,26,12,70780800,1,24);
for(;$i<2073600;)echo pack(CS,$i,$i++>>8);

Run directly from the command line and piped to a file (e.g. $ php all-colors.php > out.bmp), no Content-type header is necessary. The resulting file is identical to the 105 byte version, and can be viewed in Chrome.

Answer 2

C with the GD graphics library (err, about 2.5 KB?)

The rules didn't prohibit modifying an existing image. I made a program to replace all of an image's pixels with sequential RGB values from #000000 to #1fa3ff, and I'm quite pleased with the results. Here's what it produced from from a photo posted to Flickr by Michael Carian (cc-by-sa 2.0):

(The raw output image is rather large (5.6 MB))

Here's a close-up of the top left corner (scaled up 400%):

The processing time is about 3 seconds for an image of this size:

$ time ./a.out foodface.png outfile.png
File accepted; 1920x1080 pixels
Saving...
Finished

real    0m3.251s
user    0m2.392s
sys 0m0.169s

and yes, all the pixels are different colours:

$ identify -format %k outfile.png
2073600

(identify is an ImageMagick utility; the -format %k option counts the number of unique colours in an image)

Here's the source code:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gd.h>

#define FIRST_PIXEL_MUST_BE_BLACK 1

#define luminance(rgb) (((rgb>>16)&0xff)*77+((rgb>>8)&0xff)*150+(rgb&0xff)*29)

typedef struct { int lum; int rgb; } pal;      /* Colour palette */
typedef struct { int lum; int x; int y; } pix; /* Pixel list */

/* Callback function for qsort */
int pcomp(const void *a, const void *b) {
  return ((pal *)(a))->lum-((pal *)(b))->lum;
}

int main(int argv, char *argc[]) {
  FILE        *infile,*outfile;
  gdImagePtr  img;
  int         img_width;
  int         img_height;
  int         npixels;
  int         x,y,i;
  int         rgb,colour_ref,c;
  pal         *palette;
  pix         *pixels;

  if (argv!=3) return printf("Usage: %s <source> <destination>\n",argc[0]);

  if (!(infile=fopen(argc[1],"r"))) {
    return printf("Can't open source file <%s>\n",argc[1]);
  }
  if (!(img=gdImageCreateFromPng(infile))) {
    return printf("Bad PNG file <%s>\n",argc[1]);
  }
  fclose(infile);

  img_width=img->sx;
  img_height=img->sy;
  npixels = img_width * img_height;
  printf("File accepted; %dx%d pixels\n",img_width,img_height);

  /* Allocate storage for palette and pixel data */
  palette = malloc(npixels * sizeof(pal));
  if (!palette) return printf("Out of memory\n");
  pixels = malloc(npixels * sizeof(pix));
  if (!pixels) return printf("Out of memory\n");

  /* Create palette and sort by luminance */
  for (i=0; i<npixels; i++) {
    palette[i].rgb=i;
    palette[i].lum=luminance(i);
  }
  qsort(palette,npixels,sizeof(pal),pcomp);

  /* Sort image pixels by luminance */
#if FIRST_PIXEL_MUST_BE_BLACK == 1
  colour_ref = gdImageColorAllocate(img,0,0,0);
  gdImageSetPixel(img,0,0,colour_ref);
#endif

  for (x=y=i=0;i<npixels;i++) {
    rgb = gdImageGetTrueColorPixel(img,x,y);
    pixels[i].x=x;
    pixels[i].y=y;
    pixels[i].lum=luminance(rgb);
    if (!(x=++x%img_width)) y++;
  }
#if FIRST_PIXEL_MUST_BE_BLACK == 1
  qsort(pixels+1,npixels-1,sizeof(pix),pcomp);
#else
  qsort(pixels,npixels,sizeof(pix),pcomp);
#endif

  /* Now use the palette to redraw all the pixels */
  for (i=0;i<npixels;i++) {
    c = palette[i].rgb;
    colour_ref = gdImageColorAllocate(img,c>>16,(c>>8)&0xff,c&0xff);
    gdImageSetPixel(img,pixels[i].x,pixels[i].y,colour_ref);
  }

  printf("Saving...\n");
  if (!(outfile=fopen(argc[2],"w"))) {
    return printf("Can't open <%s> for writing\n",argc[2]);
  }
  gdImagePng(img,outfile);
  fclose(outfile);
  gdImageDestroy(img);
  printf("Finished\n");
  return 0;
}

Answer 3

C++, 750 bytes

A Full resolution PNG (5.1MB)

The code creates a collection of all integers from 0-1080*1920, then sorts them by overall brightness. It then creates a Mandelbrot set, and sorts the positions based on their escape iteration and value. Then it walks through both sets, assigning colors in order from dark to bright to the Mandelbrot values smallest to largest. Finally, it writes a 32 bit per pixel BMP image to the output filename specified as a command line parameter.

#include <windows.h>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#define X _complex
#define U int
#define S(j,g)std::sort(j.begin(),j.end(),g);
U w=1920,h=1080;
WORD q[27]={'MB',36918,126,0,0,54,0,40,0,w,0,h,0,1,32,0,0,36864,126};
#define V(a,b)((a>>b)&255)
#define L(z)V(z,16)*.3+V(z,8)*.6+V(z,0)*.1
#define F for(c=0;c<w*h;c++)
U C(U a,U b){return L(a)<L(b);}
U M(X a,X b){return a.x<b.x;}
U main(U c,char**v){
std::vector<U>l;
std::vector<X>D;
F l.push_back(c);
U*i=new U[c];
DWORD p;
F{float r=0,i=0,R;p=0;
for(;p<w&&r*r+i*i<4;p++){R=r*r-i*i;i=2*r*i+(c/w-h/2)/400.;r=R+(c%w-w/2)/400.;}
X d={-p-r*r-i*i,c};
D.push_back(d);}
S(l,C)
S(D,M)
F i[(U)D[c].y]=l[c];
void*f=CreateFileA(v[1],4<<28,0,0,2,0,0);
WriteFile(f,q,54,&p,0);
WriteFile(f,i,w*h*4,&p,0);}

The code isn't fully golfed, but it's not going to get too much smaller.

Answer 4

C - 854 bytes (when squeezed)

I originally had something with cyan, magenta and yellow corners and smooth gradations of colors which looked really nice, but it didn't meet the specs.

The following fulfills the specs: uses the "first" 2,073,600 colors, no repetitions, and black in the top left corner.

How it works is kind of cool. It builds an array with the colors, then sorts vertically and horizontally by different criteria a couple of times. The end result are pleasing transitions between blue & green and between dark & light. It takes about 1.5 seconds to run. Compile using: gcc -o many many.c -lm and run using: ./many > many.ppm

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

#define W 1920
#define H 1080

typedef struct {unsigned char r, g, b;} RGB;

int S1(const void *a, const void *b)
{
        const RGB *p = a, *q = b;
        int result = 0;

        if (!result)
                result = (p->b + p->g * 6 + p->r * 3) - (q->b + q->g * 6 + q->r * 3);

        return result;
}

int S2(const void *a, const void *b)
{
        const RGB *p = a, *q = b;
        int result = 0;

        if (!result)
                result = p->b - q->b;
        if (!result)
                result = p->g - q->g;
        if (!result)
                result = q->r - p->r;

        return result;
}

int main()
{
        int i, j, n;
        RGB *rgb = malloc(sizeof(RGB) * W * H);
        RGB c[H];

        for (i = 0; i < W * H; i++)
        {
                rgb[i].b = i & 0xff;
                rgb[i].g = (i >> 8) & 0xff;
                rgb[i].r = (i >> 16) & 0xff;
        }

        qsort(rgb, H * W, sizeof(RGB), S1);

        for (n = 0; n < 2; n++)
        {
                for (i = 0; i < W; i++)
                {
                        for (j = 0; j < H; j++)
                                c[j] = rgb[j * W + i];
                        qsort(c, H, sizeof(RGB), S2);
                        for (j = 0; j < H; j++)
                                rgb[j * W + i] = c[j];
                }

                for (i = 0; i < W * H; i += W)
                        qsort(rgb + i, W, sizeof(RGB), S1);
        }

        printf("P6 %d %d 255\n", W, H);
        fwrite(rgb, sizeof(RGB), W * H, stdout);

        free(rgb);

        return 0;
}

FYI, this was the original image...

And for those interested in the code used to generate this image:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <math.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
        int x, y;
        int w = (argc > 1)? atoi(argv[1]): 1920;
        int h = (argc > 2)? atoi(argv[2]): 1080;
        double l = hypot(w, h);

        fprintf(stdout, "P6 %d %d 255\n", w, h);

        for (y = 0; y < h; y++)
        {
                for (x = 0; x < w; x++)
                {
                        unsigned char v[3];
                        v[0] = floor(256 * hypot(0 - x, h - y) / l);
                        v[1] = floor(256 * hypot(w - x, h - y) / l);
                        v[2] = floor(256 * hypot(w - x, 0 - y) / l);
                        fwrite(v, sizeof(unsigned char), 3, stdout);
                }
        }

        return 0;
}

Answer 5

Racket

Never used racket object oriented programming before (message passing) so I'm not sure this is optimal, but it seems to get the job done.

#lang racket
(require racket/draw)
(let* ((x 1920) (y 1080) (b 256) (bb (* b b)) (pic (make-object bitmap% x y)))
  (let loop ((c 0) (v 0))
    (when (> (* x y) c)
      (send pic set-argb-pixels (modulo c x)   ; x
                                (quotient c x) ; y
                                1              ; width
                                1              ; height
                                (list->bytes 
                                 (list 0                            ; alpha
                                       (modulo v b)                 ; red
                                       (quotient v bb)              ; green 
                                       (modulo (quotient v b) b)))) ; blue
      (loop (+ c 1) (+ v 8))))
  (send pic save-file "image.png" 'png))

By not using the 3 first bits in the red channel I get all three colors in my result image.

Brainfuck

The code prints out a 24bit BMP image to STDOUT for 8 bit cell BF interpreters. It creates the same image as the Racket version. It's based on the pnm version.

>-------->>+>----->-------->+++++++>>---->------>++>--->>++++[-<+++
+>]<[-<+++++<++++<++<+<++++++++<<+++++++++++++<<<<++>>>>>>>>>>>]<<[
.[-]>]++[-<++++>]<[->.<]<<.[-]...<.[-]...<[.[-]<].<.[-].<+[>>>>+<.<
<.>.>++++++++[>-]>[<<+[>>-]>>[<<<+[>>>-]>>>[<<<<->>>>>>>]<]<]<<<<<]

Ubuntu ships with bf that has 8 bit cells:

bf img.bf > image.bmp

Old version that violates being able to open from Chrome. It makes a .pnm file that are compatible with most image viewers.

>------>+++++>+++++>++>------>>-------->>+>------>>++>------->+>--
---->++++++>>>++++[-<++++>]<[-<+++++<+++<+<+++<++++<+++<+++<+<+++<
+++<++++<+++<+<+++<+++<+++<+>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>]<[.[-]<]+[>>>>+<.<<.
>.>++++++++[>-]>[<<+[>>-]>>[<<<+[>>>-]>>>[<<<<->>>>>>>]<]<]<<<<<]

Answer 6

Ruby, 109

require'chunky_png';i=ChunkyPNG::Image.new 1920,1080
i.area.times{|v|i[*(v.divmod(1080))]=v<<8|255};i.save ?i

EDIT: I should note that I submitted this when the question was still tagged code-golf, before it became a popularity-contest so I was going for short code. This is not very imaginative but I believe it to be a valid submission.

Color values range from 00 00 00 to 1f a3 ff, incrementing by 1, so the lack of red in the result is not surprising.

For the cost of adding 1 character to the source code length (replace <<8 with <<11), the following output can be had. This covers more range of the spectrum at the cost of blue resolution. It increments through RGB space at eight times the rate. Color values range from 00 00 00 to fd 1f f8.

Answer 7

Updated, first version did not have all colors unique in 24-bit space:

Mathematica: 110

x = 1920; y = 1080; Image[
 ParallelTable[
  List @@ ColorConvert[Hue[h, 1, (b + h)/2], "RGB"], {h, 0, 1 - 1/y, 
   1/y}, {b, 0, 1 - 1/x, 1/x}]]

Rules verification:

list = ParallelTable[
  List @@ ColorConvert[Hue[h, 1, (b + h)/2], "RGB"], {h, 0, 1 - 1/y, 
   1/y}, {b, 0, 1 - 1/x, 1/x}]

First pixel is black:

list[[1, 1]]

{0., 0., 0.}

All colors are unique:

id = ImageData[Image[list], "Bit16"]]
Length[DeleteDuplicates[Flatten[id, 1]]] == 1920*1080

True

---

Mathematica: 146

x = 1920; Image[
 Partition[
  ParallelTable[
   List @@ ColorConvert[Hue[c, 1, c^.01], "RGB"], {c, 0, 1, 1/(
    x*1080)}], x]]

Takes 14.778 seconds.

Rules verification:

list = Partition[
  ParallelTable[
   List @@ ColorConvert[Hue[c, 1, c^.01], "RGB"], {c, 0, 1, 1/(
    x*1080)}], x];

First pixel is black:

list[[1, 1]]

{0., 0., 0.}

All colors are unique:

Length[DeleteDuplicates[Flatten[list, 1]]] == 1920*1080

True

Answer 8

Python - 104

from PIL import Image
a=list(range(2073600))
i=Image.new("RGB",(1920,1080))
i.putdata(a)
i.save("o.png")

This is the version, which would have been for the code-golf challenge. As it is just increasing the value from 0 up to 2073599, it contains only unique colors.

Python - 110

As I didn't like the above version (the colorrange isn't fully used), I tried something like the following:

from PIL import Image
a=list(range(0,2073600*8,8))
i=Image.new("RGB",(1920,1080))
i.putdata(a)
i.save("o.png")

Python - 122

Another extension to the above:

from PIL import Image
a=[(i<<3,i)[i%2]for i in range(2073600)]
i=Image.new("RGB",(1920,1080))
i.putdata(a)
i.save("o.png")

Answer 9

Processing, 301
This is not an attempt at the most terse solution, but it maintains all of the control to achieve the desired arrangement of colors. Yes, the colors are not consecutive, but that is no fun.

int w = 1920;
int h = 1080;
void setup(){
  size(w, h);
  int x = 0; int y = 0;
  for(int i=0; i<w*h; i++){
    stroke(
      (i >> 0) & 0xFF,
      (i >> 6) & 0xFF,  
      (i >> 3) & 0xFF
    );
    if (y % h == 0){
      y = 0;
      x++;
    }
    point(x, y);
    y++;
  }
  save("unique.png");
}

Answer 10

Visual Basic .NET, 273 bytes

Imports System.Drawing : Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        Dim b As New Bitmap(1920, 1080) : For i As Integer = 0 To 2073599 : Dim x = 0 : b.SetPixel(Math.DivRem(i, 1080, x), x, Color.FromArgb(i + &HFF000000)) : Next : b.Save("output.png")
    End Sub
End Module

This outputs a 5.61 MB file:

The code above is a compressed version of this more readable code. Spaces were removed to save bytes.

Imports System.Drawing
Module Module1
    Sub Main()
        Dim b As New Bitmap(1920, 1080)
        For i As Integer = 0 To 2073599
            Dim x = 0
            b.SetPixel(Math.DivRem(i, 1080, x), x, Color.FromArgb(i + &HFF000000))
        Next
        b.Save("output.png")
    End Sub
End Module

Link to the image: http://µ.pw/k

Answer 11

ImageMagick - Convert 119

Lets use the convert from the ImageMagick toolbox to create images. It runs in 0 seconds. It is golfed to 119 characters. I overlay two gradients (red-blue and black-white) convert them to HSL and back to RGB.

G=gradient;convert -size 900x900 $G:red-blue \( $G: -rotate 90 \) -compose CopyRed -resize 1920x1080\! -composite o.png

Examples of gradient overlay can be found in the ImageMagick manual pages.

Answer 12

PHP, 507

You will probably need to increase the amount of memory allocated to PHP in order to run. Uses GD. Takes around 9 seconds to generate the image.

$a=microtime(true);$c=1920;$d=1080;$e=$c*$d;$f=@imagecreatetruecolor($c,$d);$h=255;$j=2200000;$k=array();$l=1;for($m=0;$m<=$h;$m++){for($n=0;$n<=$h;$n++){for($o=0;$o<=$h;$o++){if($l<=$j){$k[]=array($m,$n,$o);$l++;}else{break;}}}}while($p<=$e){for($q=0;$q<=$c;$q++){for($s=0;$s<=$d;$s++){$t=imagecolorallocate($f,$k[$p][0],$k[$p][1],$k[$p][2]);imagesetpixel($f,$q,$s,$t);$p++;}}}$u=number_format((microtime(true)-$a),4).' seconds';imagestring($f,6,10,10,$u,$v);header('Content-Type: image/png');imagepng($f);

Link to the output image: http://i.stack.imgur.com/AAKqW.png

See it running on the web: http://ben-paton.co.uk/portfolio/pixel.php?w=1920&h=1080

Answer 13

DELPHI/PASCAL (Version #1), 361 bytes

program P;
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}
uses
  System.SysUtils, Vcl.Imaging.pngimage,System.UITypes;
var a : TPNGObject; h,w: Integer; c : TColor;
begin
   a :=TPNGObject.CreateBlank(COLOR_RGB, 16, 1920, 1080);
   for h := 0 to 1020 do
     for w := 0 to 1920 do
         begin
         a.Pixels[h,w]:= c ;
         inc(c);
         end;
   a.SaveToFile('e:\t.png');
end.

Answer 14

Tcl/Tk, 149

150

set p [image c photo -w 1920 -h 1080]
set y 0
time {set x 0
time {$p p [format #%06x [expr $y*1920+$x]] -t $x $y
incr x} 1920
incr y} 1080
$p w c.png

Answer 15

Java 411 386+24 bytes

Golfed

import java.awt.image.*;()->new BufferedImage(1920,1080,1){{long t=System.currentTimeMillis();int q=-1;for(int i=0;i<getWidth();i++)for(int j=0;j<getHeight();j++)setRGB(i,j,q++);java.io.File f=new java.io.File(System.getProperty("user.home"),"Desktop"+System.getProperty("file.separator")+(System.currentTimeMillis()-t)+".png");javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(this,"png",f);java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().open(f);}}

Ungolfed

import java.awt.image.*;
() -> new BufferedImage(1920, 1080, 1) {
        {
            long t = System.currentTimeMillis();
            int q = -1;
            for (int i = 0; i < getWidth(); i++)
                for (int j = 0; j < getHeight(); j++)
                    setRGB(i, j, q++);
            java.io.File f = new java.io.File(System.getProperty("user.home"),
                    "Desktop" + System.getProperty("file.separator")
                            + (System.currentTimeMillis() - t) + ".png");
            javax.imageio.ImageIO.write(this, "png", f);
            java.awt.Desktop.getDesktop().open(f);
        }
    }

Result

Explanation

This is not my attempt at the shortest solution, but rather the most portable. Only left import for BufferedImage because the other's didn't save bytes. Rather than loading the Image into a JPanel and writing on it, I saved the time it takes from beginning until writing to disk as the filename. For me, this took this resulted in filenames of about ~110 ms, whereas the time from beginning until end usually took ~500ms. Lastly, it should be platform independent as I tested in both Windows and an Ubuntu VM and it worked (It writes the file to your Desktop). Had to have the return statement due to the Callable syntax garbage. Although I'm working on the work around, I doubt I'll find a better implementation on my own due to the saves from using l and w for my for loops. I'd say half a second for java isn't too bad. My original implementation opened directly to chrome using

 (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("win")) { try { Process
 * p = Runtime.getRuntime() .exec(new String[] { "cmd", "/c", "start chrome " +
 * f }); p.waitFor(); } catch (Exception e) { } } else if
 * (System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase().contains("ix")) { try { Process
 * p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "google-chrome" + f }); } catch

But I believe it's still validated as it can still be opened by chrome, it just automatically opens to your default png viewer (version not tested on Unix based machines).

I'm aware of the byte saves possible but mainly have omitted them to qualify for bonuses. If requested I can upload shorter, platform specific examples. Thank you.

Edit

Removed Unnecessary Try Catch block and ill formatted return statement to reduce ~30 bytes.
Removed BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB because it's literally just 1.