[vtkusers] Saving images with greater than 8-bit depth

[Aashish Chaudhary]

Do you need save individual channels 16 bit or all four of them 16 bit?

- Aashihs

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:06 AM, James Geach via vtkusers <vtkusers at vtk.org>
wrote:

> Hi all -
>
> I'm volume rendering using a fixed point volume mapper and a scalar to
> color table with up to 65536 colours, rendering to a virtual frame buffer
> (initialized with Xvfb and 16-bit depth).
>
> I'm using window to image filter and then the standard PNG and TIFF image
> writers to save the frames, however these always seem to save as images
> with 8-bit depth.
>
> Is there a straightforward method to write images using the full colour
> depth of the frame buffer?
>
> Note - I am using VTK via python.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> Jim
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