POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : GIF, TGA, PNG lib : Re: GIF, TGA, PNG lib Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:20:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GIF, TGA, PNG lib  
From: Axel Hecht
Date: 25 Apr 1999 10:27:52
Message: <372318AD.724F86E6@numerik.uni-kiel.de>
Ph Gibone wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> 1) Does anyone knows a way to access (read and write) the values of any
> points in a graphic file (GIF, TGA or PNG) from a POV Script.
> 
> or
> 
> 2) Does anyone knows any good and free library for accessing the values
> inside a graphic file (GIF, TGA, or PNG) callable from a 32 bits windows
> C/C++ program.
> 
> TIA
> Philippe

2)!
The libpng distributed with povray is one possible solution. If you
would like to have the overkill of graphics formats, go for the
ImageMagick
http://www.wizards.dupont.com/cristy/ImageMagick.html
which compiles for Win32 as well. It's freeware, though not open source,
if I remember right.


Axel


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