Re: Color Class
| From: | Tomas V.V.Cox | Date: | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:52:10 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Color Class | ||
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Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
>
> > It will probably more flexible to not store all differents colors
> > value in the same array. There are many colors standart (Rasmus told
> > us about cmyk and spots b.e.) and maybe pantone and others stuffs like
> > that. The array will grow too much. One array per colortype
> > PEAR_Colors_RGB PEAR_Colors_CMYK,... ? We don't need to include all
> > colors and maybe more modular.
>
> Or store it in one format and figure out the appropriate conversion
> algorithms to the various other formats. Some cannot be automatically
> converted, but for the ones that can there is no reason to duplicate the
> data.
>
It's not a "space" problem it's a "speed" problem. Think on gradients
or
"show colors" operations.
Tomas V.V.Cox