Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Wanted: image format review and doc
Message-ID: <458@becker.UUCP>
Date: 28 Apr 89 20:17:29 GMT
References: <5300001@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <5300001@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|I am about to complete a new high speed Mandelbrot/Julia plotting program
|(in assembler for IBM 370 only) and would like to produce output in some
|format that makes sense, i.e. includes image parameters as well as content.
|
| [ discussion of known formats & their problems deleted ]
|
|What other formats are there?

	You might look at the IFF format used by Electronic
	Arts & many others. It was adopted as the default for
	Amigas.

	It has no 8-bit or other hardcoded restrictions of
	the parameters. I beleive it has animation support
	in the latest version.

	Information can be obtained from Commodore - try
	"carolyn@cbmvax" for information on how to receive
	machine-readable docs & source-code, etc.

Cheers,
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