16-bit grayscale images

[Skip Montanaro]

    Jeff> With Python/Tkinter is there a way to read in, write out, and
    Jeff> display 16 bit grayscale images?

I suggest you check out PIL and VTK:

    http://www.pythonware.com/downloads/index.htm#pil

    http://public.kitware.com/VTK/

Completely different approaches, but I suspect there will be code in both
that does what you want.

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