RE: TOOLS: PPM -> SFImage Converter?

Greg Scallan ([email protected])
Thu, 29 Jun 1995 18:11:40 -0700

> You wrote:
> All of which lead

  • > (source code, only, please) which convert from any of the popular formats to
    > SFImage. Upon thinking about it, it seems like a reasonable extension to
    > the PBMPlus tools would be a ppmtosfimage tool which could suck in a
    > portable pix map and spit out an SFImage field. Then we could convert from
    > any of the formats accepted by PBMPlus (which is almost all formats) and
    > output SFImage modules to use as texture maps within VRML.

    Hello all, as a quick intro, I've been a lurker, mostly, on this newsgroup
    since late last year. I'm part of a development team here at Paper Software
    currently working on soli VRML viewing capabilities. I know we will be
    supporting JPEG/GIF/BMP/SGI RGB/SUN RASTER/SFImage image formats. We have soli
    conversion code from GIF/RGB to Windows 3.1 BMP format, but I think it is heavily
    dependant upon soli internal stream objects we have (as opposed to the filesystem
    read/write). I'll see if I can extract out soli of the code for anyone interested.

    I think it is best to have VRML writers support soli external image format as
    opposed to SFImage, so that images don't need to be "imported" into wrl files.
    It's nice being able to use external image processing applications
    to to write out image files and then directlry include that filename as opposed
    to the file's data. I guess JPEG is a good choice being it is freely available code.

    Greg Scallan
    Paper Software, Inc.
    (914)679-2440
    [email protected]