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Name Radiance RGBE Image Format
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Identifiers PUID:  fmt/591
MIME:  image/vnd.radiance
Family  
Classification Image (Raster)
Disclosure  
Description Radiance defined an image format for storing HDR images, now described as RGBE image format. RGBE stores pixels as one byte each for RGB (red, green, and blue) values with a one byte shared exponent. Thus it stores four bytes per pixel.
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Related file formats None.
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Developed by None.
Supported by None.
Source Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Source date 12 Nov 2013
Source description  
Last updated 12 Nov 2013
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