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[djellison]

I've got a few .tab's from the PHX Lidar

Basically - after playing with it for a while, I'll end up with a spreadsheet of values. Each column being one sample 30s apart - each row being a different altitude.

Does anyone know a means of taking a CSV or similar, and turning it into a small image with pixel brightness representing the values from the CSV?

I've thought of one technique using conditional formatting in Excel - but it probably wont work very well

[jamescanvin]

My terrain mapping (and in fact my MER image processing as well) does quite a bit of converting of number arrays to image pixel values using the FreeImage C++ library. If you sent me the file I could probably do the conversion to without too much trouble.

IDL can do it as well (not sure about the free GDL, never used it) using 'plotgrid'. Not sure if you could get 16bit images using this method though (if you needed that).