Charlie Murphy wrote: > Is there an image format that's simpler than PPM and that supports > alpha transparency? PPM's syntax is too flexible; to parse an image > you have to skip arbitrary whitespace in the header. You can't > simply read() it.
Martti Kühne wrote: > Neither the endianness nor the maximum width is in question for > space-separated human readable, variable width numbers. Heyho Martti, As I understood, the goal was to make it easily parseable for computers. Converting between the ASCII representation and the binary representation of a number seems to miss that goal. Of course human readability would be nice too and the conversion cost isn't that big of a deal either, but this would be another topic and could include to make the pixel values human readable as well (which probably is a bad idea). --Markus
