The idea is very sensible. Using an image format that's trivial (and fast) to read and write makes it easy to build custom image-processing pipelines. The video

The idea is very sensible. Using an image format that's trivial (and fast) to read and write makes it easy to build custom image-processing pipelines. The video game industry used to (and maybe still does) use Truevision TGA format, in uncompressed true-color mode, to meet this use case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truevision_TGA TGA currently has the advantage over Farbfeld that many image editors and viewers can already read it, which means you can look at the intermediate results in your pipeline without having to convert them to PNG or whatever first. But Farbfeld has the advantage of utter simplicity.