2007.04.05 19:58 "Re: [Tiff] Floating point RGBA", by Craig Bruce
That seems like a very strange combination. If I remember correctly, packbits is a byte-based RLE scheme. Applied to floating point data, compression ought to be very inefficient.
It may be a sensible option if the image has significant regions of solid black. The IEEE floating-point representation of 0.0 is: 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 (in either endian).
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