Jean-Karim Hériché

> you can try clicking the "Show in new window" button to run in a standalone web browser. This is what I did and how I could get to the...

People working with LIDAR data already developped file formats for gigantic point clouds. The standard format is .las (with .laz the compressed version). See https://www.asprs.org/divisions-committees/lidar-division/laser-las-file-format-exchange-activities. This is supported by the...

@d-v-b As an example, consider super-resolution microscopy produces point clouds which can be and almost always are rendered as images. We may want to store the original point data (which...

Yes, it's a matter of scoping, i.e what do we want to cover with ngff? One advantage that could come with having more than images in the container is the...

I have 0.0.56. I can't install the latest as it is also trying to access downloads.openmicroscopy.org

OK. Thanks for the prompt reply. I was caught off guard as I expected that once installed the package wouldn't need anything. It might be worth having the package try...

Thanks @sbesson I was just looking around for a mirror but wasn't finding one.

I think it would make sense to have at least one other independent source in case this kind of outage happens again.

Count me in. As a regular R user, this is something I've been thinking about recently. I'd favour the C++/Rcpp path over the reticulate approach as I've had issues with...

> Fewer restrictions generally leads to simpler standards. but they shift the burden to implementations which then reduces interoperability because loose specs have ambiguities. I am not against removing restrictions...