[HDRI] Support for JPEG HDR?

[Mark Banas (lists)]

Hi Greg & Rafal,

Thank you both for pointing out those resources! I will definitely be  
playing around with them to see what I can come up with. It looks  
like pfstools will do most of what I need (as long as I can handle a  
makefile or two -  hey, I'm just an artist), and I think I'll contact  
Brightside just to make sure I'm on the non-commercial side of the  
fence regarding JPEG HDR.

So outside of Photosphere and pfsview, are there any other JPEG HDR  
viewers available yet? (Not that I mind recommending that visitors  
get Photosphere, but building pfsview.exe might be a bit much for  
some Windows users...)

Thanks again!

-Mark

On Mar 1, 2006, at 2:33 AM, Rafal Mantiuk wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> You can also take a look at:
>
> http://www.mpi-sb.mpg.de/resources/pfstools/
>
> The latest version (1.3 in the CVS) can read and write JPEG HDR files
> ("jpeghdr" library must be installed before compilation). There are
> command line tools for resizing, cropping and reading/writing files in
> all major HDR formats. The software is GPLed.
>
> Rafal
>
>
> On 3/1/06, Gregory J. Ward <gregoryjward at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> This would seem to fit within the "non-commercial" restrictions of
>> the JPEG-HDR software license from BrightSide Technologies.  You can
>> download compiled tools for Linux, Windows, and OS X to go between
>> JPEG-HDR and Radiance RGBE formats from their website:
>>
>>         http://www.brightsidetech.com/products/process.php
>>
>> I have a program for OS X that reads and writes all the formats
>> understood by Photosphere, and allows simple resampling and
>> brightness scaling.  It would be possible to compile it under Linux
>> with a little work, but Windows of course is a pain in the arse...
>>
>> -Greg
>>
>>> From: "Mark Banas (lists)" <listmail at mab3d.com>
>>> Date: February 28, 2006 9:31:29 PM PST
>>>
>>> Hey quiet list!
>>>
>>> I have a couple of questions for Greg and anyone else who is on top
>>> of this:
>>>
>>> - What viewing software (aside from Photosphere) supports the full
>>> decoding of the JPEG HDR file format?
>>> - What utilities are available for the non-commercial conversion of
>>> HDR files to JPEG HDR (on a server)? (Should I be talking to
>>> Brightside?)
>>> - Are there any common graphics toolkits (like ImageMagick, NetPBM,
>>> etc.) that can non-destructively transform HDR images?
>>>
>>> If you can't tell where I'm going with this, then let me explain:
>>> I'd basically like to set up a web-based "gallery" of LDR and HDR
>>> images with dynamic content processed by the server. Files in
>>> common HDR formats could be uploaded and the server would handle
>>> things like thumbnails, resizing, gathering image data, and
>>> converting to browser-viewable JPEG HDR. (The HDR version would
>>> then be "inspectable" upon downloading the JPEG HDR) I've got all
>>> the pieces except HDR support...
>>>
>>> -Mark
>>
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