From owner-help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Sep 27 14:24:19 1996
Subject: Loading Images?
From: "John W. Eaton" <jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu>
To: august-jonas at CS dot YALE dot EDU
cc: help-octave at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 14:21:19 -0500

On 27-Sep-1996, august-jonas at cs dot yale dot edu <august-jonas@cs.yale.edu> wrote:

: How do you load an image into an Octave matrix?  The loadimage command
: only works with "Octave format" image files.  Any standard image type
: would be great, such a ppm, gif, tiff.

There doesn't seem to be a way yet, but it shouldn't be too hard to
write a filter to convert a portable bitmap/pixmap files to a file
that Octave can load.  I've added this to Octave's PROJECTS file, but
it will probably happen sooner if someone else does the work.

Thanks,

jwe