[MUD-Dev] Re: MAPPING: Creating a bitmaped graphic from map coordinates

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On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John Bertoglio wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan F Yospe <yospe#hawaii,edu>
> To: mud-dev#kanga,nu <mud-dev#kanga,nu>
> Date: Wednesday, April 22, 1998 6:56 PM
> Subject: [MUD-Dev] Re: MAPPING: Creating a bitmaped graphic from map
> coordinates
> 
> 
> :On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, John Bertoglio wrote:
> :
> ::Graphic wizards please take a look at this problem. I suspect the
> ::solution is trivial but it is beyond me!
> :
> ::Here's the problem:
> :
> :First off, could you please, PLEASE not use that dual html mailing?
> :And for those who replied in the same - some of us DON'T use browsers
> :to read mail.
> 
> 
> My mistake. Won't happen again.

Thanks.  As one of that 'some of us', I appriciate it.  :)

 
> The data is stored in a VisualFoxPro table as integers. Essentialy,
> the system takes HTML form input and outputs database reports formated
> in HTML. What I was hoping to to do was find a graphics format that
> would accept a series of strings, something like:
> 1,1,FF0000,;1,2,00FFFF etc. where the first two numbers represented
> the x,y coordinates and the next string the RGB hex values. I could
> easily convert the coords to hex as well... Thank you for the help.

As Jon Leonard pointed out a couple messages ago, PPM is pretty easy.

Check out

     <URL: http://www.dsc.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/2d/PPM.txt>

for a full description of PPM format.

     <URL: http://www.dsc.ed.ac.uk/~mxr/gfx/2d-lo.html>

has a list of gobs of image formats. 

LING: you may want to add that to the useful URLs section of the FAQ.
      I know it's going in my bookmarks.  :)

<OT>
> MUD-Dev: Advancing an unrealised future.

Every time I see this, I read it as 'Advancing an unrealistic future'.
heh.  Mayhaps I will work on consciously overridign that... maybe not.  ;)
</OT>
 
-Greg



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