POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.programming : GIF, TGA, PNG lib : Re: GIF, TGA, PNG lib Server Time
28 Jul 2024 22:31:12 EDT (-0400)
  Re: GIF, TGA, PNG lib  
From: Johannes Hubert
Date: 25 Apr 1999 11:35:30
Message: <37232832.0@news.povray.org>
Careful with writing GIF files!

GIF is *not* patentfree. For any application that can write files in the GIF
format you have to pay license-fees to the patent owner Unisys. And they are
*very* strict about that! Better not get caught writing GIFs without a
license...

Johannes.


Ph Gibone wrote in message <372315a2.0@news.povray.org>...
>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
>
>


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