https://github.com/JuliaIO/NRRD.jl
thats pure Julia Am Samstag, 1. Oktober 2016 20:48:37 UTC+2 schrieb Steven G. Johnson: > > > > On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 9:59:15 AM UTC-4, David Smith wrote: >> >> I also don't need it to read image formats. Part of the reason behind >> RawArray is to avoid standard image formats because they are not optimized >> for large complex-float arrays. I just want to save multi-GB data arrays to >> disk quickly and read them back quickly on a different machine, five years >> later. >> > > Aside from a small ASCII header, it looks (from the specs) like NRRD can > save a multidimensional complex floating-point array as just the raw data, > i.e. a single "write" call. So I'm not sure what you mean by "not > optimized". > > As for being able to read something 5 years later, using a pre-existing > format with some kind of userbase seems to improve the odds of that. > > On Monday, September 26, 2016 at 10:03:20 AM UTC-4, David Smith wrote: >> >> Sorry I forgot to add: >> >> JuliaIO/Images.jl relies on having ImageMagick installed, whereas >> RawArray.jl is a pure Julia solution without any dependencies. >> > > The NRRD spec is not that complicated at first glance; it looks like it > wouldn't be too hard to write a pure-Julia implementation of it. If you > only want to support the subset of NRRD's functionality provided by > RawArray, the implementation effort wouldn't be much harder than RawArray. >
