Industrial Light & Magic announced an update to OpenEXR, its open source extended dynamic range image file format. In a continuing effort to promote an open source industry standard for an extended dynamic range file format, ILM put considerable effort into this production-ready update. New features include: support for tiled images, Pxr24 compressor contributed by Pixar Animation Studios, support of high dynamic range YCA (luminance/chroma/alpha) images with subsampled chroma channels, etc. Visit ILM.com for more.

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