[fitsmime] Thoughts on FITS MIME types.

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2002-12-13T16:40:30 -0500, William Pence hath writ:
> to think image/fits should only be applied to 2-dimensional images,  since
> there is a big step up in complexity (possibly requiring user interactions),
> to deal with display of 3-D data cubes.

But what about

NAXIS   = 4
NAXIS1  = 1024
NAXIS2  = 1024
NAXIS3  = 1
NAXIS4  = 1

?

This is the same bone of confusion that brought WCSAXES into the WCS
papers.

This is really a 2-d image, and to be unable to display it is to
deprive a FITS audience from viewing many files that conform to
suggestions in the original FITS paper.

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