Radiance RGBE Image Format

Summary

Name

Radiance RGBE Image Format

Identifiers

• PUID: fmt/591
• MIME: image/vnd.radiance

Format type

Image (Raster)

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.

File extensions

hdr, pic, rgbe, xyze

Submitted by

Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Internal signatures

Changelog

• V84

  Release date

  21 January 2016

  • Updated

    Radiance RGBE Image Format: Added MIME.

• V72

  Release date

  12 November 2013

  • Added format

    Radiance RGBE image format: Outline Entry Added.

  • Added signature

    Radiance RGBE image format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.