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Re: [Openexr-devel] groups of channels
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Charles Henrich |
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Re: [Openexr-devel] groups of channels |
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Mon, 2 Aug 2004 12:38:19 -0700 |
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> >format? If there were the concept of grouping channels together
> >hierarchically, and being able to add meta-data (attributes..) on those
> >groups, the format could be used as a sort of floating-point equivalent of
> >photoshop files.
> We have not considered adding a "channel group" concept. Do you have a
> specific application in mind? What sort of API do you envision for channel
> groups, and could your API be implemented in a backwards-compatible manner?
We've done this here at Digital domain to support nuke's internal grouping
mechanism simply via a naming convention. Channels are grouped by
groupname.channelname in the simple case. Works very well so far. Not
technically amazing, but simple can be good :)
-Crh
Charles Henrich Digital Domain address@hidden
http://www.sigbus.com/~henrich