On Apr 30, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Deepak Pandian wrote:

> How are the raw images (pix format) are generated within brlcad workflow?

PIX files are the default format for many of our tools including our primary 
ray tracer.  They represent raw unbiased spectral image data.

> Suppose if I plan to do all the  processing in double precision, with
> 4 bytes for every color channel, should we generating pix with 4
> bytes/channel or its up to the libicv to make that conversion.

You cannot change the format of a .pix file, so that conversion would 
necessarily occur within the library.  We have a few tools that will process a 
.dpix file, which is a double-precision floating point format, but that's an 
experiment from 20+ years ago that hasn't been touched in at least half that 
time.

The most important aspect is to just never lose any precision.  It should be 
entirely lossless processing so you can bring data into the library and export 
always ending up with where you started, so long as the output format has the 
requisite range.

Cheers!
Sean


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