<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Jan 5, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Mark Baker wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 1:15 PM, R Fritz <<a href="mailto:rfritz@u.washington.edu">rfritz@u.washington.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Maybe vnd.radiance.hdr, then?<br></blockquote><br>Is Radiance an organization of some type? Sorry for my ignorance of this space.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Radiance is the lighting simulation package where the format comes from. Radiance was originally developed at LBL, but is now open source. There's a loose organization of researchers which work with and on Radiance. You can find us at <<a href="http://www.radiance-online.org/">http://www.radiance-online.org/</a>>. We've never needed a formal name before; in the registration form, I've called us the Radiance Lighting Simulation Group.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite">LBL isn't in charge any more; Radiance has<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">been open source for years, and is developed by a loosely organized group<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">overseen by Greg Ward. I'd love to do image/radiance, but aren't<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unqualified subtypes reserved for official standards bodies?<br></blockquote><br>That's right.<br><br>Another possibility is the personal tree, e.g. image/prs.gregward.radiance</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hmmm.</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Applications that use this media type: Adobe Photoshop, AHDRIA,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">AHDRIC, CinePaint, FDRTools, hdrgen, HDR Shop, PFStools,<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">Photosphere, Qtpfsgui, RadDisplay, Radiance, Web HDR<br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">So these tools currently use image/vnd.radiance?<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Yes. Radiance format was the first HDR image format, and because of its<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">history has been quietly adopted by applications which support HDR.<br></blockquote><br>To double-check, you're saying those apps are already coded to<br>recognize the media type name string "image/vnd.radiance"? Or are you<br>saying that they just support the format?<br><br>If the former, then it should probably be registered as is because<br>it's obviously in common use, despite the syntactic problems. If the<br>latter, we should fix the syntax.<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Oh, I see. No, they just recognize the format and some of the file extensions; there's no problem changing the media type name.</div><div><br></div><div>Randolph</div><div><br></div></body></html>