Bob ray tracer bitmap

Bob ray tracer bitmap refers to the raster image format used for output by the Bob ray tracer software. See Bob ray tracer scene description for more information about Bob.

Format
The format appears to be a simple uncompressed paletted image format. A file begins with 4 bytes for the dimensions, then 768 bytes for the palette. The rest of the file is the image pixels.

Software

 * XnView

Sample files

 * http://www.fileformat.info/format/vividbob/sample/index.htm → MARBLES.BOB

Links

 * Photorealism and Ray Tracing in C - book by Christopher D. Watkins, Stephen B. Coy, Mark Finlay
 * , from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats - Related information, but doesn't mention this format directly