IlmBase are a set of utility libraries released by ILM, and used in
 their OpenEXR implementation. Included in this package you can find:
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  * libHalf: a class (Half) for manipulating "half" values (16-bit
    floating point format) as if they were a built-in C++ data type.
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  * libIlmThread: a thread abstraction library on top of pthreads.
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  * libImath: a math library with support for matrices, 2d- and
    3d-transformations, solvers for linear/quadratic/cubic equations,
    and more.
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  * libIex: an exception handling library.