2007.03.27 15:03 "[Tiff] support for 24 bit floats?", by William B Thompson

2007.03.28 15:09 "Re: [Tiff] support for 24 bit floats?", by Andrey Kiselev

On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 04:09:08PM +0200, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:

Can the RGBA interface work with the 24-bit float sample type to get a preview?

No. But it can't work with 32-bit floating point either and even 16-bit integer approach is not good. So I am considering RGBAImage API as dumb and simple and I do not know how it can be improved without growing into complete interactive image viewing application. I think it is a task for libraries like gdk-pixbuf to be able to handle complex images sensibly. Unfortunately many of these middleware libraries (and gtk-pixbuf is an example) do not provide any added value over libtiff's RGBAImage functionality, so viewers based on them also have all the limitations of RGBAImage.

Best regards,

Andrey

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