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by addandsubtract 939 days ago
> The reason the early developers at OpenCV chose BGR color format is that back then BGR color format was popular among camera manufacturers and software providers. E.g. in Windows, when specifying color value using COLORREF they use the BGR format 0x00bbggrr.

For anyone curious about why OpenCV uses BGR: https://learnopencv.com/why-does-opencv-use-bgr-color-format...