comp.lang.ada
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
Subject: Re: A generic image decoder - specification design
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 23:07:25 +0100
Date: 2010-05-02T23:07:25+01:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9itrt552ibsvfsp1ijcuej9725ra4kofmu@4ax.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 475f7e4b-25ab-483f-a48e-546e8615d9af@24g2000yqy.googlegroups.com

On Sun, 2 May 2010 12:24:13 -0700 (PDT), Gautier write-only
<gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On 2 mai, 13:45, brian <brian.cat...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Have you thought about supporting the FITS (http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/) format?
>
>Do you know what maximum color depth there is with FITS ?
>I guess it might be more than 255 per fundamental color, but I got
>lost in the docs.
>Perhaps I should let this 255 boundary as a generic parameter as well.

If it's not just for viewers, but also for photography and graphic arts,
it would be well worth supporting 16-bit per channel colour depths.
(Some scanners are 12-bit but that is often padded to 16 anyway.)

- Brian



  reply	other threads:[~2010-05-02 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-05-01 17:03 A generic image decoder - specification design Gautier write-only
2010-05-01 20:30 ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-02  9:19   ` Andre
2010-05-02 10:48     ` RasikaSrinivasan@gmail.com
2010-05-02 15:09     ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-02 15:21       ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-05-02 19:21         ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-02 11:45 ` brian
2010-05-02 15:15   ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-02 19:24   ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-02 22:07     ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2010-05-02 23:01       ` tmoran
2010-05-03 12:18         ` Gautier write-only
2010-05-05 21:07 ` A generic image decoder - first preview! Gautier write-only
2010-05-24 20:51 ` A generic image decoder - specification design Stephen Sangwine
2010-05-24 21:42   ` Gautier write-only
replies disabled

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox