thomson@cs.utah.edu (Rich Thomson) (11/01/90)
I recently FTP'd some images from NASA that were in FITS format, yet
another image format from the astronomy community. I have to admit
that the FITS format is pretty verbose in what it allows (and similar
in some respects to the format for "fields" used by Stardent's AVS
software).
Hoping to not have to re-invent the wheel, I'd like pointers to some
FITS code that I could use as a portion of or model for a program to
read FITS files into AVS. I don't particularly care what language its
in, but I'd prefer C or FORTRAN.
If nothing presents itself, I will continue working on a reader that
I've been creating (so far it just scans the file without really doing
anything). Once that reader is done, I'll be glad to post the source
to some appropriate place.
-- Rich
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