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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. Just Great ... by obsidianpreacher · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now everybody will be able to create Jar-Jar Binks models and insert them into substandard movies!

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  4. Open format, not open source, per se... by gpinzone · · Score: 0, Redundant

    They just openly defined the file format, not the tools to create graphics.

    This is a nice thing for them to do since they did have to put time and money to come up with this format standard. However, it's not that much of a charitible contribution to the software community. They had to come up with this format anyway, so why not release it to everyone?