[Haskell-cafe] Reading images (PGM)

[Greg Buchholz]

Dmitri Pissarenko wrote:
> I need to write a function in Haskell, which
> 
> 1) reads a greyscale image (for instance, in JPEG, PNG or the like) and

    If you can specify any image format you want, and you're not
concerned with efficiency, you can't beat the simplicity of the
portrable greymap (PGM) file format.  You read in a simple header with
the dimensions of the image, and one 8 bit character per pixel.

http://www-info2.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/mitarbeiter/wolfram/lehre/bildformate.html

Greg Buchholz