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From: Daniel McCoy <mccoy@pixar.com>
To: Axel Waggershauser <awagger@web.de>
Cc: libtiff - Liste <tiff@olympiakos.com>
Subject: Re: 16bit floats
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From: Axel Waggershauser <awagger@web.de>
> Hi Kai-Uwe,
> 
> On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 16:09, Kai-Uwe Behrmann wrote:
> > Hi,
> > is here anybody who uses floats with 16bit in here/his application? I
> > would like to read / write and to exchange images within this format with
> > others. But I am not aware of any application wich allready reads this
> > data type.
> 
> We are working with 16-bit float images as well but use the OpenEXR
> format (www.openexr.org). It's based on a floatingpoint representation
> called "half" wich is used by NVIDIA in their new graphic cards as well.
> 
> Maybe, it would be possible/good/desirable to extend the set of
> supported types of the libtiff to include this "half" type.

Definitely all three: possible/good/desirable.

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