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I remember running across the NetPBM format when I was looking at some of the images that are stored in jwz's folder on the CMU AI repository. There's somethin

• jd3 11y ago
  wow, nice find. I've never come across any of jwz's actual academic/LISP work in the wild. very cool.
• dwc 11y ago
  Of course you could use awk or anything else, but for most tasks there are already transforms in the netpbm tools that work well. In addition to being in text format, the meta info always comes first, which facilitates streaming. That in turn means that if you pipe together four transforms you'll use four cores without even trying.
• theoh 11y ago
  See also the NRRD format which is a generalisation to higher dimensions. http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/ http://teem.sourceforge.net/nrrd/