[fitsmime] FITS Mime-Types for Mosaics

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2002-12-06T15:30:02 -0500, William Thompson hath writ:

> that I can recognize are certainly 2D images.  This is also implied by the
> following text from RFC2046:
>
>     (2)   image -- image data.  "Image" requires a display device
>           (such as a graphical display, a graphics printer, or a
>           FAX machine) to view the information. An initial
>           subtype is defined for the widely-used image format
>           JPEG. .  subtypes are defined for two widely-used image
>           formats, jpeg and gif.

The IANA registry contains examples of "image" types which are
nothing like a jpeg or gif.

E.g., autocad files with 3-d vector models:

http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.dwg
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.dxf
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/vnd.svf

I think that's a broad enough precedent not to worry about
the dimensionality of a PHDU image.

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