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- Newsgroups: comp.graphics.explorer
- Subject: Re: File Formats
- Message-ID: <8472@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 23:50:34 GMT
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- Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
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- > Do anyone happen to know any computer journals or textbooks which
- > talks about different image file formats?
- > I am working on a project to display c_scan and p_scan images using
- > SGI Explorer. The images files are already in PV_WAVE (Precision
- > Visuals), MAT_LAB, Analyze (Biomedical Imaging Resource) formats.
- > I think thay are raster images and TIFF images. Are there any ways
- > to convert these images files to RGB format? (existing tools or any
- > programming)
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- There is also a module on the ftp site which can import various
- foreign images formats. Quoted from the documentation of
- ImportImage :
-
- "Currently ImportImage knows about the following formats....
-
- Format Description
- ------- ----------------------------------------------
- gif CompuServe Graphics Image Format File
- hdf Hierarchical Data Format File
- icon Sun Icon and Cursor file
- iff Sun TAAC Image File Format
- mpnt Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
- pbm Portable Bit Map file
- pcx ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
- pgm Portable Grayscale Map file
- pic PIXAR PICture file
- pict Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
- pix Alias PIXel image file
- pnm Portable aNy Map file
- ppm Portable Pixel Map file
- ras Sun RASterfile
- rgb Silicon Graphics RGB image file
- rla Wavefront raster image file
- rle Utah Runlength-encoded image file
- rpbm Raw Portable Bit Map file
- rpgm Raw Portable Grayscale Map file
- rpnm Raw Portable aNy Map file
- rppm Raw Portable Pixel Map file
- synu Synu image file
- tiff Tagged Image File
- x Stardent AVS X image file
- xbm X11 Bit Map file
- xwd X Window Dump image file"
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- Cheers,
- -- Robert van Liere
-