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

[James Geach]

It's all four of them - so, basically I want to end up with a 16-bit (or 
higher) RGBA image (TIFF).

Thanks, Jim

On 04/08/2015 09:37, Aashish Chaudhary wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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