<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I agree. There are too many apps which already use "pic", and it's confusing besides; there's more information in an HDR map than there is in a conventional image file. Perhaps we could also register a MIME type for hdr files? Or has that already been done? I'm willing to undertake the work on that, if people want and if it hasn't been done yet.</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Randolph</div></div></span></div></span> </div><br><div><div>On Oct 25, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Greg Ward wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>All suffixes in Radiance are just a convention, but since both Windows and Mac OS X look at the suffix as a first indication of file type, it's not a bad idea to standardize them. The "hdr" suffix has definitely been picked up by the mainstream as a Radiance image file, while the "pic" suffix gets confused for other types on the different systems. In this respect, I agree with Axel that it would be beneficial to change this convention, if people are OK with that.<br><br>Although I can see Rob's point that it's nice to have a suffix that uniquely identifies a Radiance-generated image from other possible sources, the de facto use of extensions does not support this these days. An extension indicates the file type, not its creator.<br><br>If anyone else has a good reason why we should not switch to using ".hdr" in place of ".pic" in rad/trad/etc. in the next release, now is the time to speak up.<br><br>-Greg<br><br><blockquote type="cite">From: Rob Guglielmetti <<a href="mailto:rpg@rumblestrip.org">rpg@rumblestrip.org</a>><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Date: October 25, 2008 7:43:24 AM PDT<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">On Oct 25, 2008, at 8:20 AM, Axel Jacobs wrote:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">trad still puts the old .pic extension on image files. The general<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">consensus nowadays seems to be to use .hdr. Since it's a quick<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">find-and-replace jobbie, may I propose to use this convention for rad<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">and trad as well. I'd be happy to send you patch.<br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I rather like (and have become accustomed to, and have built scripts around) the .pic extension referring to a raw Radiance-generated image. I dunno how everyone else feels, but with all the available sources for hdr images, some of which we can call "hdr" images, I'd rather keep our good old .pic extension as a Radiance community standard.<br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>Radiance-general mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Radiance-general@radiance-online.org">Radiance-general@radiance-online.org</a><br><a href="http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-general">http://www.radiance-online.org/mailman/listinfo/radiance-general</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>