We are participating at the RoboCup 2015 from the German Aerospace Center in October. Before the torunament we will get a 30x30 pixel sized TIFF image, representing a low-pixel heigtmap. My task is to write a fast and lightweight, dependency free code that reads this TIFF image an does some algorythmic stuff on it.
I googled about the TIFF image format and it seems there are some powerfull libraries, but is there a simple way of reading just the color values of the file?
I remember a format, don't know which, where I just skipped the first 30 bytes and then could read the color values in RGB. Do you have any code that could do that or an idea/explanation how I could acchieve that?
As I said, I do not need filename, imagesize data etc. I actually don't even know why they have choosen the TIFF image-format since its just a normal heightmap in greyscale, but however.
Every help is very appreciated.