HTML5 Canvas, 2nd Edition

Examining the Tile Sheet

The tile sheet is formatted into a series of tiles starting at the top left. As with a two-dimensional array, the numbering starts at 0—we call this 0 relative. Moving from left to right and down, each tile will be referenced by a single number index (as opposed to a multidimensional index). The gray square in the top left is tile 0, while the tank at the end of the first row (the rightmost tank) is tile 7. Moving down to the next row, the first tank on the far left of the second row is tile 8, and so on until the final tile on row 3 (the fourth row down when we start numbering at 0) is tile 31. We have four rows with eight columns each, making 32 tiles with indexes numbered 0 to 31.