Thursday, June 19, 2008

Maya Open Source HDR image readers





Cryogenic Graphics has released HDRFlowMaya2008. This open source code is a collection of floating point image readers for Autodesk's Maya 2008. Originally supported on OSX only it is now available for XP/Vista. It supports ILM's OpenEXR, DPX, TIFF, HDR and digital camera's RAW formats.

HDRFlow is a open source framework and application to process and capture high-dynamic range (HDR) and RAW images. It is written in C++, and is both cross-platform and hardware accelerated on modern GPUs.

It is in development and current features include:

- Multiple channel playback
- Real-time hardware based pan and zoom
- GPU based visualisation tools
- Extensive Python scripting
- Look up tables support

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