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From: Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>
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Subject: Re: A generic image decoder - specification design
Date: Sun, 02 May 2010 23:07:25 +0100
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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