Daniel Richard G. wrote:
> 
> I'd like to ask if there are any points against this, and if not, then if a
> patch to enable fp-TIFF output would be of interest. Much of it would track
> the HDR patch for MegaPOV (e.g. disabling color clipping when this format is
> chosen), and most of the new code would be in source/tiff_pov.cpp.

Tiff support is indeed something that could use improvements very well - 
not only as far as the 32 bit float variant is concerned - 16 bit 
integer is currently not supported either (although it is trivial to 
convert from PNG of course) - just like grayscale variants i think. 
This is of course not only meant for the output but also for input 
(while more than 16 bit is rarely necessary there it can be convenient). 
  Of course for reading the endless number of tiff variants that exist 
makes it quite difficult.

If anyone is turned off by the libtiff ugliness - CImg 
(http://cimg.sourceforge.net/) recently got a libtiff interface which 
could provide useful hints when implementing such a feature.

Christoph

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