regarding bitmaps, they are actually textures: <ht...

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regarding bitmaps, they are actually textures: https://www.glprogramming.com/red/chapter08.html#name1. Just a particular type one.
A texture, following McKesson tutorial, is nothing else than a bunch of data, it may represent a very variety of data (even nothing graphic related). It's up to you what you want it to represent.