POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: heightfields and DEM and Geotiff: Re: heightfields and DEM and Geotiff

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From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 20 Dec 2002 12:31:25
Message: <3E0353EC.D1291E38@gmx.de>

Jim wrote:
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
>    Thanks for the tip. As it turns out, the PGM format is an 8-bit
> format and loses most of the values. 

That's not true, see:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/pgm.html

POV-Ray reads 16 bit ASCII PGMs without problems.

Christoph

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