Introduction

Command line binaries that involve reading or writing non-native woolz formats are collected together under the "External File Format" (ExtFF) heading. These binaries typically match procedures in the WlzExtFF library. Supported formats can be determined by running the programme WlzExtFFConvert with the flag "-h" and are:

Description	Extension
Amira Lattice	am
Microsoft Bitmap	bmp
Stanford Density	den
Netgen	neutral mesh format	emt
Graphics Interchange Format	gif
ANALYZE HDR	hdr
Image Cytometry Standard	ics
IPLab	ipl
JPEG	jpg
Pascal Frey's	medit tetrahedral mesh format	mesh
Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative	nii
Jonathan Shewchuk's	mesh format	node
Utah	nearly raw raster data (NRRD) format	nrrd
Wavefront	obj
BioRad Confocal	pic
Riken PLY2	ply2
PNM	pnm
Drishti	dot NC format	pvl.nc
Raw	raw
SLC	slc
GRUMMP SMESH	smesh
Stereolithography	format	stl
Tiff	tif
Text	txt
Sunvision VFF	vff
GRUMMP VMESH	vmesh
Visualization Toolkit VTK	vtk

Other programmes in this group convert a few special formats for contours and particualar applications. For conversion of raw data then use WlzRawToWlz in the extended applications module.