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

[Lee Fallat]

On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:45 AM, FRIGN <d...@frign.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jul 2014 17:38:21 +0200
> Markus Teich <markus.te...@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.