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RE: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help
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Luc-Eric Rousseau |
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RE: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help |
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Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:56:39 -0500 |
Thanks. It's my understanding there is an image processing
library available for Python, "PIL". In this case I
was asking for clients doing TD-type work, such
as creating light rigs from an HDR environment map,
proxy generation, file header dumpers or converters.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Kainz [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:41 PM
> To: Luc-Eric Rousseau
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help
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> Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> > so.. are there Python bindings to OpenEXR?
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> No, so far we don't have Python bindings.
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> Writing wrappers for most of Iex, Half, Imath and IlmImf would be
> straightforward and easy to do. Reading and writing the actual
> pixels is where things become interesting. You'd probably want
> to have a Python image object with an arbitrary number of channels,
> just as the OpenEXR file itself. Pixel-by-pixel image processing
> in Python is way too slow to be practical, so you would want to
> have a set of useful image operators that are implemented in C++
> and wrapped in Python. What operations should be included, and
> what should be omitted or left as an exercise to the reader?
> I suspect that what users would really want is a Python-based
> floating-point image processing package that happens to support
> OpenEXR file I/O.
>
> Florian
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