Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry From: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: digiview -> IFF Message-ID: <826@madnix.UUCP> Date: 4 Sep 89 15:21:54 GMT References: <2514@hp-sdd.hp.com> Reply-To: perry@madnix.UUCP (Perry Kivolowitz) Organization: ASDG Incorporated Lines: 27 In article <2514@hp-sdd.hp.com> tony@hp-sdd.UUCP (Tony Parkhurst) writes: >In article MSW@mplvax.sri.com (Mark S. Williams) writes: >>I got the Neptune pictures from Stanford and uncompressed them on my >>amiga. Now what do I do - I don't have DigiView. Is there some way to >>convert a DigiView picture to IFF? > >uuuuuuuhh... Well, actually, DigiView pictures ARE in IFF format, they just >aren't immediately displayable because they use 21 planes of direct color, WRONG! The Digi-View 21 bit format is NOT IFF. And, does not conform to the accepted standard specified by Commodore for deep IFF pictures. (Actually, that standard was, in fact, defined by ASDG and modified by Justin McCormick). Note to all authors writing deep pixel manipulation programs: You are well advised to start supporting the ASDG standard since it has been adopted by commodore. I will have someone post the implementation details shortly - if there is interest. -- Perry Kivolowitz, ASDG Inc. ARPA: madnix!perry@cs.wisc.edu {uunet|ncoast}!marque! UUCP: {harvard|rutgers|ucbvax}!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!perry CIS: 76004,1765 (what was that about ``giggling teenagers''?)