[fluxus] ppm format commit (was feature request: pipeable ppm image output)

[Dave Griffiths]

>> I've done basically the following with Pd+Gridflow, it works quite well,
>> so I think it would be good if it were possible with Fluxus too :-)
>>
>> In Fluxus:
>>
>> (start-framedump "myfifo.ppm" "ppm")
>>
>
> is ppm the only file format you can do this with though? tif's would
> probably be faster as they will be a lot smaller, and the data won't have
> to be converted to ascii.

sorry, I thought ppms were ascii - seems they are a wierd combination of
ascii and binary, which is as good for this as uncompressed tiffs...

ppm support is in cvs now. do you need anything else to write to a fifo,
or does it just look like a file to fluxus?

cheers,

dave