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From: haker@cat4.cs.wisc.edu (Michael Haker)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: TARGA bitmap format
Keywords: Targa, 24 bit color files
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Date: 15 Feb 90 22:25:53 GMT
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I am part of an undergraduate graphics group and we are in the process
of starting up a computer animation.  We wrote our own raytracing and
modeling software and are interested in a standardized 24 bit file
format.  I have heard about a TARGA format which has a small header
(12 bytes?) followed by rgb values. 

How standard is this format?  Is there another format that is as simple
and more standard?  Could someone tell me the header format of TARGA?

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