RE: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help

[Luc-Eric Rousseau]

Thanks. It's my understanding there is an image processing 
library available for Python, "PIL". In this case I 
was asking for clients doing TD-type work, such 
as creating light rigs from an HDR environment map, 
proxy generation, file header dumpers or converters.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Kainz [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:41 PM
> To: Luc-Eric Rousseau
> Cc: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Openexr-devel] Willing to help
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> Luc-Eric Rousseau wrote:
> > so.. are there Python bindings to OpenEXR?
> 
> 
> No, so far we don't have Python bindings.
> 
> Writing wrappers for most of Iex, Half, Imath and IlmImf would be
> straightforward and easy to do.  Reading and writing the actual
> pixels is where things become interesting.  You'd probably want
> to have a Python image object with an arbitrary number of channels,
> just as the OpenEXR file itself.  Pixel-by-pixel image processing
> in Python is way too slow to be practical, so you would want to
> have a set of useful image operators that are implemented in C++
> and wrapped in Python.  What operations should be included, and
> what should be omitted or left as an exercise to the reader?
> I suspect that what users would really want is a Python-based
> floating-point image processing package that happens to support
> OpenEXR file I/O.
> 
> Florian
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