Christopher James Huff schrieb:
> In article <4219be88$1@news.povray.org>, "scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'm writing some code in C++ (on windows) to generate some 16-bit height
>>field data.  What is going to be the easiest way for me to export the
>>numbers to use in POV?  The PNG file format looks pretty complex (compared
>>to BMP which is what I'm used to).

Aha, me too, but linux is my choice.
As Christopher mentioned libpng is not that hard to use.
Just yesterday I took a look at the manpage (man libpng) and there are
several examples on how to write the image data.
I didn't try it yet, but it didn't look too complicated.
Maybe within the next week I'll have some C++ code.

> 
> PNG would be the best option. libpng is really not that hard to use, 
> just follow the examples in the documentation. You get lossless 
> compression and files that are widely supported.

Regards,
Sebastian H.

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