Bob ray tracer bitmap

File Format
Name	Bob ray tracer bitmap
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Graphics Bob ray tracer bitmap
Extension(s)	.bob
Released	1992

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

• Konvertor
• XnView
• Tom's Viewer

Sample files

• http://www.fileformat.info/format/vividbob/sample/index.htm → MARBLES.BOB
• dexvert samples — image/bobRayTracerBitmap

See also

• Bob ray tracer scene description
• Vivid scene description

Links

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