Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!usc!apple!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: digiview -> IFF Summary: corrections to corrections accepted Message-ID: <564@tardis.Tymnet.COM> Date: 6 Sep 89 20:49:09 GMT References: <2514@hp-sdd.hp.com> <557@tardis.Tymnet.COM> <2518@hp-sdd.hp.com> Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith) Organization: McDonnell Douglas Field Service Co, San Jose CA Lines: 41 >In article MSW@mplvax.sri.com (Mark S. Williams) writes: Mark>I got the Neptune pictures from Stanford and uncompressed them on my Mark>amiga. Now what do I do - I don't have DigiView. Is there some way to Mark>convert a DigiView picture to IFF? We (Tony and I) did not answer Mark's real question in the first set of postings. It was not "converting DigiView picture to IFF" but rather "How does one convert DigiView-compatible raw data into 'normal' IFF picture?" There are many answers, including 1) Use DigiView or Transfer24, 2) Use the fbm set of routines that were posted to comp.sources.unix in March, 3) write your own quick hack, etc. Sorry for straying from the real subject. In article <2518@hp-sdd.hp.com> tony@hp-sdd.UUCP (Tony Parkhurst) writes: >So, "You've got it all wrong." Have you looked at the output from DigiView, >it indeed DOES have a FORM, ILBM, but no color map. It follows the IFF >standard perfectly. It just uses 21 planes of data, 7 each of R, G, and B. >(If you would like, I can post a program I wrote that will read this file,etc) I stand corrected. >>>256 levels of grey, so they probably won't display well on the amiga. Looks great. >However, the picture that someone posted here (from the Stanford machine), >and said to be processed by DigiView, has a resolution of 320 by 216, has >a 16 color palette, and is in HAM mode (6 planes). It also is in color. >I am curious as to WHY it has color. (It is pretty tho.) I did not see >the broadcast "live" of these pictures, but I thought that they were sent >in monocrome from Voyager, and color processed later. So, if this is the >case, who added the color? NASA, or some Amiga junkie :-? I've only seen one picture posted to this newsgroup. The poster did not claim that the picture came from Stanford. It does, however, look suspiciously like he pointed a camera at the cover of Newsweek magazine. (Check out the moon in the upper left.) That explains the color. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | SMTP: JMS@F74.TYMNET.COM or jms@tymix.tymnet.com McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!tardis!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10 support: My car's license plate is "POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"