@Gerald, @Jonathan,
Thanks very much for the helpful replies. I was running version 20.0; I
upgraded to 20.04p11 and am now seeing the expected values in my Java
program!
As my investigations proceed, I'll be sure to share my findings and musings
with this mailing-list, in case anyone's curious.
Once I have written a program that can take in the TGA produced by Fractint
and spit out an ASCII GRID file, I'll begin producing and converting ASCII
GRID tiles that I'll stitch together into a surface in the GIS software. I
think I'll start with a perfectly reasonable 3x3 mosaic of 1280 x 1024
images, just to get the conversion and stitching process figured out. Once
the process is solid, I'll up the ante and aim for, say, a total resolution
of 32,768 x 32,768, and we'll see how the GIS software handles 1Gb+...
P.s. Very glad to see the FOTD still going, Jim!... How many years has it
been?
Thanks again,
Jason Hine
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