Re: GraphicsMagick 16bit on windows

[Jan Neggers]

> On 03 Jul 2015, at 16:47, Marco Atzeri <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 7/3/2015 11:49 AM, Jan Neggers wrote:
>> I’m using octave 4.0 on windows 7, and I need 16bit image support. I did 
>> install the 16bit version of GraphicsMagick, but how do I tell octave to use 
>> that version instead of the 8bit version provided with octave?
>> _______________________________________________
> 
> You can't.
> 
> So or you rebuild octave with 16bit version of GraphicsMagick
> or you use the cygwin version that already has 16 bit support.

Ah, ok, I understand, I was more or less expecting this answer, but sometimes 
we do get lucky! I’ll try to compile octave, but the problem is that this means 
all the students also have to do that, which is not really an option.

btw, the reason why we need 16bit support is because the images are used as 
measurement data, i.e. computer-vision type problems, where color precision 
does matter (the camera actually captures in 14bit).