OpenEXR Concepts

Concepts

• Technical Introduction to OpenEXR
  • Features of OpenEXR
  • Overview of the OpenEXR File Format
  • Luminance/Chroma Images
  • The half Data Type
  • What’s in the Numbers?
  • Recommendations
• Standard Optional Attributes
• Storing Multi-View Images in OpenEXR Files
  • Multi-View OpenEXRs
  • View Naming
  • Single Part and Multi-Part Conventions
  • Storing Multi-View Images in Multi-Part OpenEXR Files
  • Storing Multi-View Images in Single Part OpenEXR files
  • Files with Only One View
  • Library Support
  • File Name Extension Support
• Interpreting OpenEXR Deep Pixels
  • Overview
  • Definitions
  • Alpha and Color as Functions of Depth
  • Basic Deep Image Operations
  • Opaque Volume Samples
  • Appendix: C++ Code
• Theory of Deep Samples
  • Definitions
  • Sample Model
  • Sample Splitting
  • Sample Merging
  • Summary
• OpenEXR File Layout
  • Document Purpose and Audience
  • Backwards Compatibility and New or Changed Functionality
  • Basic Data Types
  • File Layout
  • Components One and Two: Magic Number and Version Field
  • Component Three: Header
  • Component Four: Offset Tables
  • Component Five: Pixel data
  • Predefined Attribute Types
  • Sample File
• OpenEXR/Imath 2.x to 3.x Porting Guide
  • OpenEXR and Imath Are Different Packages
  • Background
  • New Library Names and Repository Structures
  • Finding and Using OpenEXR and Imath CMake Configs
  • Imath Include Files Are in a Different Subdirectory
  • Include Files Include Fewer Other Headers
  • Symbols Are Hidden by Default
  • Imath Now Uses Standard C++ Exceptions and noexcept
  • Some Headers and Classes Have Been Removed from Imath 3.x
  • File/Class-specific Changes
  • Imath Python Changes
• Symbol Visibility in OpenEXR