Subject: Re: HIPS format images

From: [email-masked] (Mark J. Burge)
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 1994 09:41:41 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Seong Jiun CHEN <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>Has anyone had any idea what HIPS format is? How to show the image? And is there any software
>package to convert from HIPS to integer format?

	I am not an expert on HIPS, but as far as I remember of the format,
it consists of a "TEXT" header describing the transformations which have
happened to the contents of the file by other HIPS routines 
(HIPS is an image processing library), and then depending upon the format,
it is very similar to pbm/pgm et cetra.  At least the lowest level is
just a binary write out of the array.  

	Below is the man page for hipstopgm:

.TH hipstopgm 1 "24 August 89"
.IX hipstopgm
.SH NAME
hipstopgm - convert a HIPS file into a portable graymap
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B hipstopgm
.RI [ hipsfile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Reads a HIPS file as input.
.IX HIPS
Produces a portable graymap as output.
.PP
If the HIPS file contains more than one frame in sequence, hipstopgm
will concatenate all the frames vertically.
.PP
HIPS is a format developed at the Human Information Processing
Laboratory, NYU.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
pgm(5)
.SH AUTHOR
Copyright (C) 1989 by Jef Poskanzer.
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which can be found at netserv.cnr.it:/pub/X/R5/contrib/clients/pbmplus/pgm.

	Cheers, Mark

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