@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ However, they are many color systems each with their own advantages:
* YCrCb is used by the popular JPEG image format.
* CIE L*a*b* is a perceptually uniform color space, which comes handy if you need to measure the *distance* of a given color to another color.
Now each of the building components has their own valid domains. This leads to the data type used. How we store a component defines just how fine control we have over its domain. The smallest data type possible is *char*, which means one byte or 8 bits. This may be signed (so can store values from 0 to 255) or unsigned (values from -127 to +127). Although in case of three components this already gives 16 million possible colors to represent (like in case of RGB) we may acquire an even finer control by using the float (4 byte = 32 bit) or double (8 byte = 64 bit) data types for each component. Nevertheless, remember that increasing the size of a component also increases the size of the whole picture in the memory.
Now each of the building components has their own valid domains. This leads to the data type used. How we store a component defines just how fine control we have over its domain. The smallest data type possible is *char*, which means one byte or 8 bits. This may be unsigned (so can store values from 0 to 255) or signed (values from -127 to +127). Although in case of three components this already gives 16 million possible colors to represent (like in case of RGB) we may acquire an even finer control by using the float (4 byte = 32 bit) or double (8 byte = 64 bit) data types for each component. Nevertheless, remember that increasing the size of a component also increases the size of the whole picture in the memory.
