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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.

  3. Re:So they would like you to write tools for them by fritter · · Score: 5, Funny

    If all goes as planned all the great OSS software will be written to output this format in no time.

    Actually, if all goes as planned in six and a half years there will be great OSS software at Milestone 15 able to render a sphere in only ten hours.

  4. Re:So they would like you to write tools for them by JanneM · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Um, to me that sounds like a good plan for everyone. It's one of the points of open source that while you release your stuff, you can make money on your own extensive knowledge of said stuff. After all, since the format and basic tools are open you do not need to use their (hypothetical) proprietary versions if you do not want to.

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