Wednesday, June 17, 2015

What image library/format should I use?

I am doing a new batch renderer and need to do image I/O including HDR (with viewer if possible).  Last time I did this it was all image magic and Greg Ward's rgbe code.   What are the cool kids using these days?
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8 comments:

  1. friedlinguiniJune 17, 2015 at 5:10:00 PM PDT

    The kids might have gotten cooler since the last time I looked, but I believe it's OpenEXR.

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  2. IliyanJune 17, 2015 at 6:12:00 PM PDT

    I've used DevIL in the past. It is simple to use and supports many formats, including HDR formats, and can be compiled into a single big fat binary with no other dependencies. Not sure if it supports the latest OpenEXR spec or if its still "cool" :-)

    https://github.com/DentonW/DevIL

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  3. LarryJune 17, 2015 at 7:58:00 PM PDT

    All the cool kids (and, almost without exception, all the big VFX and animation studios) use OpenImageIO.

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  4. UnknownJune 17, 2015 at 9:39:00 PM PDT

    +1 for OIIO if you need something full featured with an out of core texture system.

    If you are looking to minimize dependencies, stb_image is another popular choice (single file header library for C). pbrt-v3 is using this.

    https://github.com/nothings/stb/blob/master/stb_image.h

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  5. UnknownJune 18, 2015 at 5:02:00 AM PDT

    https://github.com/syoyo/tinyexr is another nice "micro library"

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  6. DEADC0DEJune 18, 2015 at 1:36:00 PM PDT

    http://c0de517e.blogspot.ca/2013/07/tiny-hdr-writer.html has also links to other small HDR read/write code

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  7. Peter ShirleyJune 19, 2015 at 1:28:00 PM PDT

    Thanks much for the suggestions! I am glad I asked. Nick Porcino added a vote for OpenEXR. I'll do some testing and report what I find out.

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  8. UnknownJune 19, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM PDT

    Why not Piccante? piccantelib.net

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