Is there any way of efficiently rendering a simple animation thread workarea 
colour indexed pixelmap (8bpp in this case) onto a visible GDI+ graphics 
object.

- animation thread read/write random access to 8-bit pixelmap data.
- display thread read access only to 8-bit pixelmap for visible screen 
update at selected frame rate (10fps - hardware accelerated if possible)

So far I have found that I can use DrawImage(...) however this implies 
working with Image (Bitmap) objects and necessary LockBits/UnlockBits 
overhead in getting direct access to the pixelmap for the animation thread.

In OpenGL I can use the glDrawPixels(...) function without any contention 
between a worker animation thread and the on screen display update thread - 
I was hoping that something similar was available in GDI+.

For info I have tried LockBits-ing the Bitmap at the start of the animation 
and leaving the BitmapData locked indefinitely but this is obviously 
disallowed...

Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated
Thanks
Steve