Re: [dev] Looking for simple, alpha supporting image format

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From: Lee Fallat <ircsurfer33_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2014 11:46:25 -0400

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM, FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:38:21 +0200
> Markus Teich <markus.teich_AT_stusta.mhn.de> wrote:
>
>> I don't think floats will help our cause at all. This would just use more space
>> (at least I haven't seen a usable 8bit floating point specification yet) and we
>> would probably use less of the values range. In floating point representation
>> when dealing with colors only [0.0, 1.0] is used.
>
> It was just meant as a general question.
>
>> 8bit per component are sufficient for the human eye. This leads to 2 ^ (3*8) =
>> 16.777.216 colors. Can you differentiate any pair of them I would show you?
>
> Thanks for clearing this up.
> Did you know women are generally better at discerning different colors?
>
Robots are the best though.
Received on Wed Jul 16 2014 - 17:46:25 CEST

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