2000.03.30 10:53 "Complex Floating Point", by Antonio E. Scuri

I would like to store complex floating point images from FFT results in a TIFF file.

Although TIFF has support for single and double precision floating point, there is no definition for a complex pixel value.

If I use complex double precision floating point only, I can use SampleFormat=IEEEFloatingPoint + BitsPerSample=128. But if I use BitsPerSample=64, this is the same of real double precision, so can not use single precision for complex values using this approach.

In the case of non image Tags, also the definition of field type should receive two more options 13 and 14, for single and double precision floating points.

1. Is there anyone using TIFF with complex images? If so, which were your solution to the problem?
2. Do someone know if there is any complex floating point support in the TIFF 7.0 spec?

Thanks,

Antonio Scuri