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From: Miles Bader <miles.bader.fz@renesas.com>
To: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: "RGB" in color.el
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:15:58 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoipzk2001.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com> (raw)

I think the comments in color.el should be a bit more specific about the
term "RGB", since that's ambiguous (e.g., in `color-xyz->rgb', the
comment just says "Converts CIE X Y Z colors to RGB.").

From the code it's pretty clear that what's really meant is "sRGB" so
maybe that term could just be substituted.

[I dunno if it's worth adding something like "(gamma corrected)" as well
-- I guess sRGB without generally refers to the gamma-corrected form,
but it can be very useful to programmers to know whether a quantity has
a certain gamma-correction incorporated, so maybe it's worth stating
explicitly...]

Incidentally, that brings to mind the question: are color numbers in
Emacs generally taken to refer to sRGB?  Is there any mechanism in X to
know...?

-Miles

-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-26  4:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-26  4:15 Miles Bader [this message]
2010-11-26 11:04 ` "RGB" in color.el Julien Danjou
2010-11-30  5:42   ` Miles Bader
2010-12-01 11:13     ` Julien Danjou
2010-12-01 13:13       ` Miles Bader
2010-12-02 15:01   ` Detlev Zundel
2010-12-02 16:27     ` Julien Danjou

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