Re: [Openexr-devel] 8 bit int?

[Larry Gritz]

Florian Kainz wrote:
> For 32-bit integers the numerical value is approximated. [...]
>
> This doesn't seem very useful for 8-bit integers.  Most of the time you'd
> want 0 through 255 to represent a 0.0 to 1.0 range, optionally with a
> gamma curve.

Ah, I see, the difference is the implicit [0,1] range.

I'm tempted (not that this is an immediate thing at all) to try the 
solution "store as fp16, with header attribute that hints that it can be 
down-converted to uint8 upon read" and see if that works.  Thanks for 
the suggestion!

        -- lg

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