[PD] data structures - color?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Mar 26, 2006, at 2:42 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> Hallo,
> Hans-Christoph Steiner hat gesagt: // Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> I think floats would be simplest, tho there would be three atoms in
>> place of one.
>
> Which is a problem, because a one-element specification for colors is
> needed as well (e.g. to pass colors as abstraction arguments, in data
> structures etc.)

What makes this requirement one element for color?  Changing the  
format will break backwards compatibility anyway, so you could change  
one to three elements.  I think 3 floats would make things much  
easier to use, like [colorRGB].

> Personally I like hex colors, but I'm used to them from web work.

If it must be one element, then hex colors would be the way.

.hc

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