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by huuu 3885 days ago
A lot of software already use normalized RGB.

rgb(1.0, 1.0, 1.0) == white
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StavrosK 3885 days ago
And the idea is that you specify as many decimals as you need there?
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huuu 3885 days ago
Yes but that's an interface problem.

Ofcourse you can't provide more decimals than the number of bits used by the float.

EDIT:

  0.999 * 255 (8 bit) = 255
  0.9999 * 255 (8 bit) = 255
  0.999 * 4096 (12 bit) = 4092
  0.9999 * 4096 (12 bit) = 4096
So for lower color depths the number of decimals isn't that important.
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