Okay, I need a more in-depth explaination here... I took a 16 bit tiff of the map I'm working on (on the left), and saved it as a RAW, interleaved. I loaded it as the correct height and width, count 2, interleaved, and it looks like the image on the right. Ergo, what happened?

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