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From: brownp@stuff.rtp.dg.com (Peter Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Image Format unknown
Message-ID: <1991May16.202922.10412@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 16 May 91 20:29:22 GMT
References: <1335@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <13391@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Sender: brownp@stuff (Peter Brown)
Organization: Data General Corporation, Research Triangle Park, NC
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In article <13391@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, falk@peregrine.Sun.COM (Ed Falk) writes:
|> It's no format I've ever seen before, but it was pretty easy
|> to figure out.  It starts out with with a line in plaintext ascii
|> containing the width and height: "200 200\n".  After the newline
|> is the data for a 200x200x24 image.  The picture itself was a
|> very boring picture of a grey box with a red floor.  It's impossible
|> to tell what the byte-order is (I assumed RGB) or what the pixel order
|> was (I assumed left-to-right, top-to-bottom.)
|> 

I was able to decode it with mtvtoppm, so I assume it was in mtv ray tracer format.
You description was pretty much right on, except that the byte order may have been
different.  

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Peter Brown -- Data General Corp. --  email: brownp@stuff.rtp.dg.com
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