OpenEXR VS Imath

Compare OpenEXR vs Imath and see what are their differences.

OpenEXR

The OpenEXR project provides the specification and reference implementation of the EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the motion picture industry. (by AcademySoftwareFoundation)

Imath

Imath is a C++ and python library of 2D and 3D vector, matrix, and math operations for computer graphics (by AcademySoftwareFoundation)
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OpenEXR Imath
10 1
1,576 346
1.3% 3.8%
9.2 7.9
7 days ago 2 days ago
C C++
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License
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OpenEXR

Posts with mentions or reviews of OpenEXR. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-09.

Imath

Posts with mentions or reviews of Imath. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OpenEXR and Imath you can also consider the following projects:

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

yocto-gl - Yocto/GL: Tiny C++ Libraries for Data-Driven Physically-based Graphics

OpenImageIO - Reading, writing, and processing images in a wide variety of file formats, using a format-agnostic API, aimed at VFX applications.

tinyraytracer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course

tesseract-ocr - Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository)

tinyrenderer - A brief computer graphics / rendering course

OpenMVG (open Multiple View Geometry) - open Multiple View Geometry library. Basis for 3D computer vision and Structure from Motion.

tev - High dynamic range (HDR) image viewer for graphics people

CImg - The CImg Library is a small and open-source C++ toolkit for image processing

taichi - Productive, portable, and performant GPU programming in Python.

libvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Boost.GIL - Boost.GIL - Generic Image Library | Requires C++14 since Boost 1.80