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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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  2. chrisd by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    the OpenExr link is teh broke. D00d.

  3. The Correct Link OpenExr by valmont · · Score: 0, Redundant


    OpenExr

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  5. 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?

  6. More Please, your not even phasing it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    know this is offtopic, but its the fastest way I can think of. Will everyone be so kind as to beat the hell out of my server:

    http://www.pyroxpro.com/ [pyroxpro.com]

    so I can get a quick stress test? I have no paid ads, or popups, or crap like that, just want slashdot effect stress tested. *PLEASE*

  7. IRiX? Sweet... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    It's nice to see some SGI support so my eight Octane2 and twelve Fuels are more than a big doorstop.