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simplify scene-linear explanation in website home page
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Signed-off-by: Peter Hillman <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -20,9 +20,11 @@ EXR file format, the professional-grade image storage format of the
motion picture industry.

The purpose of EXR format is to accurately and efficiently represent
high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data. This is a significant difference
to most image formats, which store output referred data ready for display. Software that handles OpenEXR images may need to process them differently to other images such as JPEG images (see :doc:`SceneLinear` for more details).
OpenEXR files have strong support for multi-part, multi-channel use cases, and extensive
high-dynamic-range scene-linear image data. This is a significant difference to
most image formats, which store images that are ready for display. Software that
handles OpenEXR images may need to process them differently to images in other
formats such as JPEG (see :doc:`SceneLinear` for more details). OpenEXR files
have strong support for multi-part, multi-channel use cases, and extensive
representation of associated metadata.

OpenEXR is widely used in host application software where accuracy is
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