Scorpion is able to operate with variety of image formats. There are 2 main types of images 2D and 3D.

2D are conventional images such as bmp, jpeg. 3D images are images that store 3D point clouds.

2D Images

Scorpion supports

• bmp
• jpeg
• png
• tif

file-formats. There is currently supported 8 bit monochrome and 24bit color images.

The png and tif formats are implemented using http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/ library.

3D Images

Scorpion support 2 types of 3D file formats:

• arr - Internal 3D image format (binary)
• a3d - Text based 3D image format. Use this format if you want to further process images or you need to supply your own images.

The 3D formats are represented internally with 3 or 5 float values.