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Re: Use 65535 as scale factor for color-values on NS
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Alan Third |
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Re: Use 65535 as scale factor for color-values on NS |
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Sat, 6 Jun 2020 20:57:40 +0200 (CEST) |
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 11:57:03AM +0200, Mattias Engdegård wrote:
> Alan, it seems that only NS uses 65280 as scale factor for
> 'color-values'; all other back-ends use 65535. Do you know if there
> is any reason for keeping it this way? Otherwise, I propose we
> change it (see patch).
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> It is probably just a relic from when colour components were scaled
> from 8 to 16 bits by multiplication with 256 instead of 257; this
> seems to have been fixed everywhere else.
I'm not aware of any reason for this, and I don't see any immediate
problems with your (second) patch applied.
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Alan Third