MODULE NAME : READ ANY IMAGE

VERSION     : 3.0

DATE        : June 30, 1993     	

INPUTS	    : image  2D 4-vector byte

PARAMETERS  : filename		        file browser
	      image file format 	choice

MODULE DESCRIPTION : This module reads an image into an AVS Network
                     in a variety of formats.  All formats which the
		     San Diego Supercomputing Center's image tools support,
		     this module supports.  With this module you can read 
		     in a gif file, and edit it with the standard tools of AVS !
		     Please note that this module calls the executable file
		     imconv.<platform>.exe.  Several of these executables 
		     come with this module for different platforms.  You
		     should keep the one for your platform, and make sure
		     you make it executable using "chmod +x" and that
		     it is in your path before you run the module.

Any of the following image file formats can be read in by this module :

    bmp           Microsoft Windows bitmap image file
    cur           Microsoft Windows cursor image file
    eps           Adobe Encapsulated PostScript file
    gif           Compuserve Graphics image file
    hdf           Hierarchical Data File
    ico           Microsoft Windows icon image file
    icon          Sun Icon and Cursor file
    iff           Sun TAAC Image File Format
    mpnt          Apple Macintosh MacPaint file
    pbm           PBM Portable Bit Map file
    pcx           ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush file
    pgm           PBM Portable Gray Map file
    pic           PIXAR picture file
    pict          Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT file
    pix           Alias image file
    pnm           PBM Portable aNy Map file
    ppm           PBM Portable Pixel Map file
    ps            Adobe PostScript file
    ras           Sun Rasterfile
    rgb           SGI RGB image file
    rla           Wavefront raster image file
    rle           Utah Run length encoded image file
    synu          SDSC Synu image file
    tga           Truevision Targa image file
    tiff          Tagged image file
    viff          Khoros Visualization image file
    x             AVS X image file
    xbm           X11 bitmap file
    xwd           X Window System window dump image file

CREDITS
-------

   This module relies on the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Image Tools,
   which are available via anonymous ftp to ftp.sdsc.edu.  For more`
   information, send email to info@sdsc.edu.

   Portions based on the /usr/avs/examples/read_image.c example code
   which is provided by Advanced Visual Systems, Inc.

   Written May 18,1992 by
        Terry Myerson
        International AVS Center
        North Carolina Supercomputing Center
        MCNC

   Updated June 25, 1993 by
        Steve Thorpe
        International AVS Center
        North Carolina Supercomputing Center
        MCNC


SDSC FILES YOU MAY NEED TO USE THIS MODULE
(if your platform is not supported by the IAC)
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imconv

You can get this via anonymous ftp to:

ftp.sdsc.edu:/pub/sdsc/graphics/imtools/<PLATFORM>
                (there are a bunch of diferent platforms supported)
Name:    rosebud.sdsc.edu
Address:  198.17.47.33
Aliases:  ftp.sdsc.edu

There's a couple of files out there under

        /pub/sdsc/graphics/imtools/<PLATFORM>

(there are a bunch of diferent platforms supported).  You will need to
grab imtools_v2.1.tar.Z, uncompress and untar it,
and you should find the appropriate file in there.