JBR 2011-12-31 - Back in the distant past I had a Sony Mavica digital camera. Here is some code to convert its native 411 format thumbnail images to ppm and hence allow their display on a Tk canvas.
#!/usr/bin/env tclkit8.6 # # Utilities # proc K { x y } { set x } proc map { args } { set body [lindex $args end] set reply {} foreach {*}[lrange $args 0 end-1] { lappend reply [eval $body] } set reply } proc cat { file } { K [read [set fp [open $file rb]]] [close $fp] } proc bytes { data } { binary scan $data c* X set X } proc tcl::mathfunc::clip { v min max } { if { $v < $min } { return $min } if { $v > $max } { return $max } return $v } # Conversion # # http://web.archive.org/web/20030819175903/http://mav-magazine.com/Dec1998/code411/code411.htm # proc yuvtorgb { Y U V } { set R [expr int(clip($Y + 1.402 * ($V-128), 0, 255))] set G [expr int(clip($Y - 0.344 * ($U-128) - 0.714 * ($V-128), 0, 255))] set B [expr int(clip($Y + 1.772 * ($U-128) , 0, 255))] list $R $G $B } proc 411toppm { file } { set 411 [map x [bytes [cat $file]] { expr $x&0xFF }] set rgb [join [map { 1 2 3 4 U V } $411 { list {*}[yuvtorgb $1 $U $V] \ {*}[yuvtorgb $2 $U $V] \ {*}[yuvtorgb $3 $U $V] \ {*}[yuvtorgb $4 $U $V] }]] join [list P6 {64 48} 255 [binary format c* $rgb]] \n } # Test # set PPM [411toppm MVC-526X.411] package require Tk image create photo img -data $PPM canvas .c -bg blue .c create image 3 3 -anchor nw -image img grid .c