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Lucas Digital Releases OpenEXR Format

Posted by chrisd on from the no-oscars-till-2005 dept.

frankie writes "Although George Lucas may have gone over to the dark side, at least some of his staff prefer Freedom and light. ILM has released OpenEXR, a graphics file format and related utilities, under a BSD-style license. Among other things, it supports the same 16 bit format used by Nvidia CG and the Geforce FX. OpenEXR runs on Linux, Jaguar, and Irix; other platforms are likely to work with a little help from the community."

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  1. Incorrect link in article.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    it's www.openexr.com, not 'www.openexr'. Sigh.

  2. Re:ILM isn't Lucas by dhess · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, he did, since this is the first time that ILM or any other Lucas Digital company has released source code for free.

    It was a group of developers who first floated the idea, but ultimately it was George's call whether or not to do it, and he gave the OK, which is pretty cool, I think.