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In article <29898@castle.ed.ac.uk> asm@festival.ed.ac.uk (M Smyth) writes:
>what i want is a file format thats 24bit colour and
>dead simple(not tiff)!  it could be a bog standard one or one
>with which i can go:
>
>nice, standard    ---->  your personal  -->  my weird, proprietry 
>file format		 file format         texture format
>
>anyone got any suggestions/help?

dead simple?  Try ppm format (from the ppmplus distribution)

P6
640 480
256
binarydatahere

P6 magic header followed by one whitespace
width followed by one whitespace
height followed by one whitespace
colordepth followed by one whitespace
raw binary data

Plus, lotsa library support in the pbmplus package.


A smaller format could be the RLE format from the UTAH Raster Toolkit.
Bit more complex, but again, a lot of library support so you shouldn't 
have to write anything yourself.

mrc

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