Development status Active Operating system | Written in C++ | |
Original author(s) Stable release 1.2 / July 8, 2013; 3 years ago (2013-07-08) Repository github.com/OpenImageIO/oiio | ||
OpenImageIO is an open source library for reading and writing images. Support for different image formats is realised through plugins. The project is distributed with a modified BSD license.
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History
Project OpenImageIO started as ImageIO - an API that was part of Gelato, the renderer software developed by nVidia. Work on ImageIO started in 2002. In the same year the specification of the API and its header files was released under BSD license. In 2007, when the project Gelato was stopped, the development of ImageIO also ceased. After this Larry Gritz started a new project - OpenImageIO.
In April 2009 OpenImageIO was accepted into the Google Summer of Code program with four student slots.
September 2009 marked the release of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film), the first full-length feature film in whose production OpenImageIO, along side OpenShadingLanguage, has been used as the texturing engine.
Applications
OpenImageIO library comes with a few applications that demonstrate its features:
Supported formats
As of today the library supports the following formats: OpenEXR, HDR/RGBE, TIFF, JPEG/JFIF, PNG, Truevision TGA, BMP, ICO, FITS.