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  Re: Callling all Earth renderers - Blue Marble "next generation"  
From: PM 2Ring
Date: 22 Oct 2005 04:45:00
Message: <web.4359fb3adfb2e4261ae306d60@news.povray.org>
Tim Cook <z99### [at] bellsouthnet> wrote:

> partly due to the fact that I don't have an image editing program that
> can handle that large of an image.  I need a special app that'll splice
> them without needing to load the entire file into memory first.

The NetPBM programs (which are the basis of ImageMagick) may be able to what
you want, since they are designed to run in pipes. I'm pretty sure that
pnmcat can join .ppm files, line by line. The .ppm format is very simple,
and these conversion & transformation utilities have been around for well
over a decade.


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