Re: Color Class

From: Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:01:26 +0000
Subject: Re: Color Class
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> > > 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. But a "space" problem becomes a speed problem since this is done in user space on a per-request basis. For this to not be a speed issue you'd need to write this in C and have it initialized just once in the module startup hook. -Rasmus

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