Registration of media type image/vnd.radiance

[R Fritz]

Maybe vnd.radiance.hdr, then?  LBL isn't in charge any more; Radiance  
has been open source for years, and is developed by a loosely  
organized group overseen by Greg Ward.  I'd love to do image/radiance,  
but aren't unqualified subtypes reserved for official standards bodies?

>> Applications that use this media type: Adobe Photoshop, AHDRIA,
>> AHDRIC, CinePaint, FDRTools, hdrgen, HDR Shop, PFStools,
>> Photosphere, Qtpfsgui, RadDisplay, Radiance, Web HDR
>
> So these tools currently use image/vnd.radiance?

Yes.  Radiance format was the first HDR image format, and because of  
its history has been quietly adopted by applications which support HDR.

Randolph

On Jan 5, 2009, at 8:05 AM, Mark Baker wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 11:34 PM, R Fritz <rfritz at u.washington.edu>  
> wrote:
>> Type name: image
>>
>> Subtype name: vnd.radiance
>
> Vendor subtypes are structured as "vnd.<vendor>.<typename>", so if you
> want to stick with it, perhaps "vnd.lbl.radiance" would be
> appropriate.  If not, how about image/radiance?
>
>>
>> Required parameters: None
>>
>> Optional parameters: None
>>
>> Encoding considerations: Binary preferred.  This is a binary image
>> type with a text header; "binary" or "base64" are the only
>> reasonable choices.
>>
>> Security considerations: The Radiance HDR file format does not  
>> include
>> executable code or scripts; it is a graphics file with an ASCII
>> header. Compression is used, which could crash an image
>> viewer. There is no way to completely rule out the possibility of
>> malicious content, however HDR viewer applications do not usually
>> run with administrator privileges--they seem poor targets for such
>> attacks.
>>
>> Interoperability considerations: byte orders are spelled in the
>> published specification; we expect that Radiance HDR files will be
>> readable on all systems.
>>
>> Published specification: *Radiance File Formats*, available freely at
>> <http://radsite.lbl.gov/radiance/refer/> and also as part of Ch 18
>> of *Rendering With Radiance* (Booksurge/Amazon, ISBN 0974538108).
>>
>> Applications that use this media type: Adobe Photoshop, AHDRIA,
>> AHDRIC, CinePaint, FDRTools, hdrgen, HDR Shop, PFStools,
>> Photosphere, Qtpfsgui, RadDisplay, Radiance, Web HDR
>
> So these tools currently use image/vnd.radiance?
>
> Mark.