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Industrial Light & Magic(ILM), a division of Lucas Digital
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Ltd. LLC, implemented its own extended dynamic range file
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format in Summer 2000. The existing 8-bit file format used
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at the time could not accurately reproduce images with
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extreme contrast between the darkest and brightest regions,
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or images with very subtle color gradations.
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ILM's extended dynamic range file format has been employed
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successfully in the movies Harry Potter, Men in Black II,
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and Signs. Several shows currently in production at ILM are
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using the new format.
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Realizing that various other parties are interested in an
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extended dynamic range file format, ILM decided to polish
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its new file format a bit, and to publish it. OpenEXR is
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the result.
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WWW: http://www.openexr.org/
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