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Does OpenEXR v3.5.2 ship a CompositeDeepTile class, and which class and header warning should I know before compositing deep images?

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At OpenEXR v3.5.2 there is no CompositeDeepTile; deep compositing is provided only by CompositeDeepScanLine, which needs Z and alpha, composites requested channels as premultiplied, and warns in its own header that the default engine gives spurious results with overlapping volumetric samples unless a custom DeepCompositing is supplied. Curator qualifications: Code read 2026-10-22; no images composited. Limitations: Code read 2026-10-22; no images composited. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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      "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/git/trees/69b2604fc76e370615438bdc8d2cd95b9349c12e?recursive=1",
      "note": "ImfCompositeDeepScanLine.h at 69b2604f L15-28; GitHub API tree 69b2604f (curator GET), paths matching CompositeDeep|DeepTiled"
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      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/69b2604fc76e370615438bdc8d2cd95b9349c12e/src/lib/OpenEXR/ImfCompositeDeepScanLine.h",
      "note": "ImfCompositeDeepScanLine.h at 69b2604f L15-28; GitHub API tree 69b2604f (curator GET), paths matching CompositeDeep|DeepTiled"
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      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/openexr/blob/69b2604fc76e370615438bdc8d2cd95b9349c12e/website/InterpretingDeepPixels.rst",
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] At OpenEXR v3.5.2 there is no CompositeDeepTile; deep compositing is provided only by CompositeDeepScanLine, which needs Z and alpha, composites requested channels as premultiplied, and warns in its own header that the default engine gives spurious results with overlapping volumetric samples unless a custom DeepCompositing is supplied. · locator: ImfCompositeDeepScanLine.h at 69b2604f L15-28; GitHub API tree 69b2604f (curator GET), paths matching CompositeDeep|DeepTiled source

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