dkoski@cs.arizona.edu (David A. Koski) (06/14/91)
Does anyone know where I could get source code for somthing that will convert a 24 bit (or 8 bit, or even 9 bit) image to spectrum format? Thanks, David Koski
dkoski@cs.arizona.edu (David A. Koski) (06/19/91)
Thanks to everyone who replied to my query about converting to spectrum format. The route I ended up taking was converting my 24 bit image to an 8 bit gif file and then converting that using bgif. The down side of this is the time required. I am doing raytracing on my Next and this usually takes 20 seconds to 2 minutes (for a 320x200 fractal landscape image). I can convert the resulting 24 bit image to gif in under a second, but it takes bgif quite a while (I didn't time it, but I would guess 2 minutes or more) to convert to spectrum. I then use dslide to view the pictures. I have gotten really excellent looking results. I can view the pictures on my Next, but only in shades of gray, it is nice to see them in color too. Oh yeah, the raytracer on the Next is Rayshade 4.0, and I use the Utah Raster Tooolkit to do the image conversions for the ST. David Koski