[fitsmime] image/* commonly refers to 3 dimensions

[Steve Allen]

On Fri 2002-12-13T17:59:40 -0500, William Pence hath writ:
[regarding a 4-d FITS array with 2 degenerate axes]
> Yes, I would agree that this is really a 2-d image and could be
> appropriately given a mime type of image/fits.

In support of the notion that any dimension of array in a PHDU should
qualify as image/fits, I point out that image/gif includes
3-dimensional images with which every web user is annoyingly familiar.

Animated GIFs.

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