On Wed, 18 Nov 2015 12:36:51 +0100 Stefan Mark <m...@unserver.de> wrote:
Hey Stefan, > I think i see. Sure, for visual representation, 16 bit wide rgba is > probably more than enough. I thought long about how much bits I want per color-channel. One format cannot solve all problems as not one program can do all tasks (even Emacs may be a great operating system, but it lacks a good text editor). PNG's limits are actually quite sensible (image width, color depth). > What i proposed was to expand the format to be useful beyond > representing visual images but represent arbitrary image-like data. > Probably completely out of the projects focus, sorry, got carried away :) I guess a better way to do that would be to use greyscale-farbfeld files for each channel or do the non-color -> color mapping separately. If you deal with infrared light, we can only speak in intensity-terms anyway, not with mixing colors. Cheers FRIGN -- FRIGN <d...@frign.de>
