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2 Aug 2024 00:18:21 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Creating 16-bit HFs from C++  
From: scott
Date: 21 Feb 2005 10:31:25
Message: <4219fecd@news.povray.org>
>   From http://povray.org/documentation/view/3.6.1/279/
>
> "The TGA and PPM file formats may be used as a storage device for 16
> bit numbers rather than an image file. These formats use the red and
> green bytes of each pixel to store the high and low bytes of a height
> value."
>
>   The raw TGA file format is extremely simple. It has a 18-byte header
> (which format is fixed) and then the raw image data.

Thanks, raw TGA is exactly what I need.  Cheers.


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