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2 Aug 2024 16:25:44 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Outputing floating point or 32-bits per color frame data  
From: Christoph Hormann
Date: 24 Aug 2004 16:19:57
Message: <412ba2ed@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   The IEEE 32-bit floating point format is very well specified and
> there should not be problems in making any program to read that (even
> if the target architecture does not support IEEE floats, it should not
> be a problem to convert from the IEEE format to whatever format the
> architecture in question uses).
>   32 bits per color component makes the (uncompressed) image file 4 times
> bigger than a regular full-color image file, but that's not unacceptable.
> 

If you have a portable code for reading and writing 32-bit IEEE floating 
point numbers i would be happy to see.

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0013390/


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