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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: 24 bit display of 24 bit images in X on DECStation 5000/240
- Message-ID: <5453@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:31:05 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.214630.5024@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Reply-To: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester UK
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- In article <1992Jul22.214630.5024@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> dmc@ecn.purdue.edu writes:
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- >displaying 24 bit images on a DECStation 5000/240 running Ultrix 4.2A
- >with their full 24 bits. I am aware of XV 2.21 and Xloadimage, but
- >they both appear to first convert to 8 bits. I was wondering what
- >were the best/fastest public domain programs to display such images,
- >and sequences of such images in rapid succession.
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- Try getx11 from the utah raster toolkit. This displays 24 bit images in 24
- bits, has zoom and movie/slideshow facilities, and can gamma correct
- properly too! It displays utah rle images but has converters from a number
- of formats; one of these is ppm, giving you access to lots of other formats
- if you have PBMplus toolkit too.
-
- Whether this is ok depends on what you mean by 'rapid', though.
-
- Chris
-