In article <4026a96c$1@news.povray.org>,
 "Tim Nikias v2.0" <tim.nikias (@) nolights.de> wrote:

> That's the tricky bit: the conversion. I don't know the commands/libraries
> I'd have to use with Java to convert float/double to bytes, and then again
> which commands/libraries I'd have to use to write them to disk. I'll go
> around searching once I actually attempt a df3 stunt, but I thought maybe
> someone has had experience with that already, so I asked.

The Java I/O classes have methods for writing binary data byte-by-byte. 
If you have floating point data with a range of [0, 1], just multiply it 
by 255 and convert to a byte, and write that byte value.


> Is it possible to use more than just a single byte? Or would I be getting
> myself into trouble (file format-wise) with that?

No, it is not, no more possible than it is to put 16 bit values in an 
8-bit component of any image format. The entire file has to be 8, 16, or 
24 bit.

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