[Image-SIG] 3 channel float images

[Travis Oliphant]

Matthew Trentacoste wrote:
> I do work with high dynamic range images and would like to see about  
> extending PIL to support them.  For those unfamiliar, the primary  
> difference is that all the channels are floating point.
> 
> I've more or less deconstructed the way that the importer/exporter  
> code works, but wanted to check on what to do to be able to create  
> images that contain 3 floating point channels.
> 
> What all do I need to do?
> +   Add an experimental mode?
> +   Add a memory mapping?
> +   Add a new case to storage.c?
> 
> Any pointers and help would be greatly appreciated.
> 

Use NumPy for storage.   Then you an use the scipy.ndimage module or 
scipy.signal module for image processing.

-Travis