[GEM-dev] Why is [hsv2rgb] implemented as an abstraction?

Mathieu Bouchard matju at artengine.ca
Tue Dec 11 19:36:21 CET 2007


On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, chris clepper wrote:
> On Dec 11, 2007 10:35 AM, Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
>> Okay+++: With single precision, lua finally beats Pd and is about a
>> fifth faster. I'm relieved, however that brings up the questions, if I
>> should use lua with single precision in Pd? What would I loose
>> (besides precision)?
> For color data floating point is already overkill.

One of PdConvention2007's papers talked about the use of floating-point 
with image data. It was the paper on FFT. For that case, it's not 
overkill, unless you consider a more complicated integer-based solution as 
not being overkill, which is something I'd dispute.

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