MTV ray tracer bitmap refers to the output format of the MTV ray tracer program by Mark T. VandeWettering.fileformat.info : mtv spec It is a simple uncompressed true-color raster image format,fileformat info format mtv similar to binary PPM format. Its name comes from the author's initials, and has no connection with the television channel MTV or the MTV file format used by portable media players.
MTV format can also be used by Rayshade. Rayshade also uses a multi-image extension of it, consisting of multiple files concatenated together.
MTV uses Neutral File Format (NFF) as its input format.
Identifiers The MTV software uses a filename extension of .pic. Third-party applications that support this format sometimes use .mtv instead.
Software ImageMagick Konvertor Netpbm: mtvtoppmlinux man page : mtvtoppm XnView
References
MTV File Format Summary, from the Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats
External links MTV source code