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What does Hillman's original paper contain that OpenEXR's current TheoryDeepPixels web page does not show, and are the formulas the same?

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The OpenEXR website's TheoryDeepPixels.rst (69b2604f, titled 'Theory of Deep Samples', SPDX BSD-3-Clause) follows the 2018 amendment of Hillman's paper at equations 6-7 (t = T^(1/n)) and keeps the derivation structure, but carries no author, organisation, date or amendment note. Curator qualifications: Licence conflict preserved: the rst declares BSD-3-Clause for its text while the PDFs carry no licence; whether the rst licence covers Hillman's derivation is not stated. Interpreting page weights equivalence (E8, F3) and abstract title inconsistency (E9) not reinspected. Text comparison only (pdftotext and normalised diff); no rendering. Limitations: Text comparison only (pdftotext and normalised diff); no rendering. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20221011161219id_/https://www.openexr.com/documentation/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf",
      "note": "openexr 1899a456 OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf (lines 4, 10, 128-131); openexr 69b2604f website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst lines 1-5, 115-125, 188-193, 478-492"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/1899a456cbafb213c4a53c35eb3203296f92e503/OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf",
      "note": "openexr 1899a456 OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf (lines 4, 10, 128-131); openexr 69b2604f website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst lines 1-5, 115-125, 188-193, 478-492"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/69b2604fc76e370615438bdc8d2cd95b9349c12e/website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst",
      "note": "openexr 1899a456 OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf (lines 4, 10, 128-131); openexr 69b2604f website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst lines 1-5, 115-125, 188-193, 478-492"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/69b2604fc76e370615438bdc8d2cd95b9349c12e/website/InterpretingDeepPixels.rst",
      "note": "openexr 1899a456 OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf (lines 4, 10, 128-131); openexr 69b2604f website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst lines 1-5, 115-125, 188-193, 478-492"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The OpenEXR website's TheoryDeepPixels.rst (69b2604f, titled 'Theory of Deep Samples', SPDX BSD-3-Clause) follows the 2018 amendment of Hillman's paper at equations 6-7 (t = T^(1/n)) and keeps the derivation structure, but carries no author, organisation, date or amendment note. · locator: openexr 1899a456 OpenEXR/doc/TheoryDeepPixels.pdf (lines 4, 10, 128-131); openexr 69b2604f website/TheoryDeepPixels.rst lines 1-5, 115-125, 188-193, 478-492 source

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component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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