I don't really want to change it, and actually "full" is what we use internally and really was the normal term pre-exr. I think both "full" and "display" can be misleading at times.
It's strange when you ask for the full image and it's smaller than the non-full image. But at the same time, you often display the data window instead of the display window and this it hard to make clear as well. --jono --mobile-- On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Larry Gritz <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 5, 2011, at 8:31 AM, Jonathan Gibbs wrote: > >> Since we're playing with names, I like width/height as they are, but I >> wouldn't have used the terms "full_width" and ""full_height", >> preferring "display_width", etc. > > If starting from scratch today, I probably wouldn't have used full_width, > either, perhaps favoring OpenEXR's terminology since it's so popular now. > But OIIO's origins date from 10+ years ago, before OpenEXR, and so it borrows > much of its nomenclature from TIFF. TIFF doesn't have an analogous concept > enshrined in its spec, but Pixar had registered a custom TIFF tag that they > called "PIXAR_IMAGEFULLWIDTH", which could be used to indicate that the image > was a crop window on a larger "full" virtual image, or that there was padding > around the logical 0-1 texture. So we just used that, since there wasn't > much competition for the name at the time. > > If everybody desperately wants to change the name of the ImageSpec field, I > could be talked into it. If multiple formats used the same nomenclature, I > could be easily swayed. But currently I'm skeptical that "display_width" is > just a nod to the nomenclature of a single format (OpenEXR, popular as it may > be today) and also that it may not be correctly named. As you said -- is > this really about "display", or is there a more general concept and name that > better captures what this is used for? I'm not claiming that "full" is more > descriptive, only that if we change it, I want a clear improvement beyond > "that's the word OpenEXR uses." > > -- > Larry Gritz > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > Oiio-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org _______________________________________________ Oiio-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openimageio.org/listinfo.cgi/oiio-dev-openimageio.org
