On Sat, 08 Jul 2000 23:09:35 -0500, Mark Gordon wrote...
> > As far as smoothing greyscale bitmaps goes, do you have access to
> > Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro, or the GIMP?  Any of those should be able to
> > apply a gaussian blur to the images and save the resulting image out with
> > a greater bit depth.
> 
> Be forewarned: I don't think the standard current version of the GIMP
> supports 16-bit greyscale.  There is a 16-bit version of the GIMP (i.e.
> 16 bits for each of red, green, blue, alpha) being developed for the
> film industry (with some subsidy), since they're the ones chiefly
> interested in that sort of color depth at this point.  Eventually that
> functionality will be merged back into the main branch of GIMP
> development.  The 16-bit version is referred to as Hollywood GIMP.  It's
> home page is http://film.gimp.org/index.html.  I haven't had a chance to
> play with it yet, but I did some looking into this at a time when I
> wanted a 16-bit heightfield.

Ah. Right.

I wasn't aware of that, since I don't use *nix.  That's another useless 
fact to file away for a rainy day then :)

Bye for now,
     Jamie.

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