Re: OT: Looking for image file format that can handle 16b its per channel

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From: Philip Staite
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00

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Paul Richards wrote:

> ASCII PPM?  What do you mean by that?  The PPM's I currently can make
> have the header in ASCII, and they do have a "maxValue" field but the
> data is just raw binary.
>
> Could you explain a little further on how these ASCII ones work?
>

I guess you missed my reply on c.l.c++ so I'll repeat it.  Go to
http://www.wotsit.org/ and look up ppm in the graphics file formats.

You're probably used to using the smaller/faster "P6" variation of PPM.  The
original was "P3" and used whitespace delimited ascii numbers for the RGB pixel
values.

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