kimgio + kfile-plugin for SGI images (*.rgb, *.rgba, *.bw, *.sgi) [which mimetype?]

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Tue March 9 2004 12:47, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> I'd like to ask for permission to commit an kimgio module for SGI images.
> These are a standard for 3D graphics textures and can be found on most
> Unix/Linux workstations[1]. The module has no dependencies and supports
> reading and writing[2] uncompressed and RLE encoded images. Only a few,
> mostly obsolete formats aren't supported yet, like 1-dimensional(!) images.
> (I'd need some example files to implement that.)
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/ doesn't mention a
> mimetype, but http://www.utoronto.ca/ian/books/html4ed/appb/mimetype.html
> suggests:
>
>   image/rgb
>   image/x-rgb
>   image/x-sgi-bw
>   image/x-sgi-rgba

Google gives by far the most hits on "image/x-rgb", extension "rgb" and "RGB 
Image" as name. E.g. http://docs.rinet.ru/CP7/ch15.htm and 
http://www.he.net/faq/tutorials/htaccess/htaccess2.txt

So I suggest to go with that one.

Cheers,
Waldo


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