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St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

Posted Jun 27, 2012 4:37 UTC (Wed) by butlerm (subscriber, #13312)
In reply to: St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack by alankila
Parent article: St. Pierre: The Linux Graphics Stack

16 bit linear ARGB sounds like it ought to become the new standard buffer format. I sure hope the GPU vendors adopt a different representation than standard scRGB(16) however, because storing reference black with a large positive bias is going to complicate processing enormously.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScRGB


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