[Digikam-users] Digikam internal precision?

[Gilles Caulier]

2010/1/19 Greg Kennedy <kennedy.greg at gmail.com>:
> But would it not help, say if you were doing repeatedly lots of
> operations, to prevent loss of quality due to imprecision in 8-bit?  If
> the 8-bit numbers were expanded to 16 bit (say mul. by 256) then you
> could do all kinds of operations on them, then save the result back as
> 8-bit rounded or truncated.

With current code to convert 8 to 16, no, because expanded histogram
has holes everywhere. Color informations are missing.

Gilles