Re: EXR layer naming conventions

Jim Hourihan <[email protected]> Tue, 3 Jul 2007 11:12:59 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 3, 2007, at 10:58 AM, Jim Hourihan wrote:

> In addition, one or more attributes ala Michael's suggestion can be  
> present which provides interpretation information per-channel.  
> These would map channel names to values. Not all channels need be  
> present in any map. The EXR spec or a similar document would  
> clearly indicate some of the per-channel map names and their values  
> (e.g., "PerChannelUnits" has "centimeters", "meters", "kilometers",  
> "feet", "yards", etc.).

Rereading my email again I realized what I'm hoping for is per- 
channel attributes and some conventions on what their values mean.  
Maybe an interface like that for layers could be added to the  
ChannelList class to make this easy to use.

	-Jim