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[fitsbits] We're in the wrong industry...
In preparation for the (proposed) ADASS XIX BoF (Pence, White, Gaudet
& Seaman), "Astronomical Data Compression: Algorithms & Architectures", I've been poking around in some peculiar corners of image formats. One interesting case is OpenEXR from Industrial Light & Magic: http://www.openexr.com This is a F/OSS format and software package that supports high dynamic range computer imaging for the movie industry, principally through 16- bit floats. Scanning down through their announcements we come to: January 4, 2007 - OpenEXR wins an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the 15 winners of Scientific and Technical Academy Awards. A Technical Achievement Award goes to Florian Kainz for the design and engineering of OpenEXR, a software package implementing 16-bit, floating-point, high dynamic range image files. Widely adopted, OpenEXR is engineered to meet the requirements of the visual effects industry by providing for lossless and lossy compression of tiered and tiled images. This is like FITS, CFITSIO and tile compression winning an Oscar (tm) :-) Rob |
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