Khronos Announces A Data Format Specification

Written by Michael Larabel in Standards on 29 July 2015 at 12:29 PM EDT. 8 Comments
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The Khronos Group, the organization behind OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and others, today announced a standard data format specification that's aptly called the "Khronos Data Format Specification 1.0."

This new data format specification is intended for, "precise mechanisms to generate machine-readable format descriptions of repetitive data, such as pixels, enabling standards and software to cleanly communicate and interoperate. This royalty-free specification will be used across multiple Khronos API initiatives, and is open to be used by third party standards and applications."

More details can be found via the Khronos press release while the actual specification can be viewed here.
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