OK, preliminary proposed fix here: 
https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/1434 
<https://github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio/pull/1434>

I'll let it sit for a few days for comment before committing. If others chime 
in that R is not smart and most people prefer Y or something, we can revise.



> On Jun 14, 2016, at 9:50 PM, Jonathan Tilden (2K) <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> For us bc4 (single channel dds) and bc5 (two channel dds for tangent space 
> normals) are read in shaders as .r/.x or .rg/.xy
> 
> To follow with that logic, I'd just suggest R
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from mobile.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Gritz [[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2016 12:41 AM Eastern Standard Time
> To: OpenImageIO developers
> Subject: [Oiio-dev] RFC on Auto-naming of channels
> 
> Very few file formats support explicit naming of channels in the files. For 
> those that don't (i.e., everything but OpenEXR and a couple other 
> stragglers), we impose a convention:
> 
> * 1 channel is called A.
> * 2 channels are I, A.
> * 3 channels are R, G, B
> * 4 channels are R, G, B, A
> * >4 channels are R, G, B, A, channel4, channel5, ...
> 
> I'm concerned now about the 1 and 2 channel cases. "A" is a special name, and 
> designates a channel as alpha, and there are a variety of places where where 
> alpha is treated specially.
> 
> So I want to revisit the conventions for naming channels of 1 and 2 channel 
> images, for formats that don't supply channel names in the file.
> 
> Suggestions? What's the best name for a single channel image?
> 
> R? Y? I (for intensity)? Grey? (ugh, gray?)
> 
> 
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