neal@druny.UUCP (Neal D. McBurnett) (01/31/85)
I would like to be able to display pictures created on my DMD on a Macintosh, and vice versa. I also hear that there is a video scanner for the mac, and I would like to be able to display stuff from it on my DMD. Given the shut-in feeling I have in my office with no outside windows, one of my objectives would be to focus a camera on the Rocky Mountains and have a fresh image transmitted every hour or so to one of the windows on my DMD. So what are the data formats? The DMD uses three possibilities, to my knowledge: dmdp format (also used by dmdfmt for sending to imagen, c.itoh, etc), twid format. large icon format (downloaded by the CATALOG program) (actually several sub-formats....) dmdp is currently only able to upload bitmaps to the host, and CATALOG can only download bitmaps. What does a Mac picture look like? Thanks! -Neal McBurnett, ihnp4!druny!neal, 303-538-4852
schnable@ihuxo.UUCP (Andrew T. Schnable) (02/01/85)
I know of someone with a program to convert mac images into dmdp format bitmaps. It would be easy to write a similar program to convert twid images. I was going to add a bitmap download into dmdp allowing you to locally format or display the downloaded image. The beginnings of this can be found in the latest dmdp. I would be interested in hearing about trade-offs in bitmap storage techniques. twid doesn't do anything - it's a straght representation. dmdp has some runlength bit encoding. I'm not sure what the mac's bitmap format is. andy ihuxo!schnable