Re: [filter-effects] color-interpolation-filters

On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:05:07 +0100, Tavmjong Bah <tav.w3c@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 14:44 +0100, Erik Dahlstrom wrote:
>> If we do say that colors are specified in the linearRGB space, then the
>> color chapter (and CSS2) is incorrect.
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/color.html#ColorIntroduction says:
>> [[ All SVG colors are specified in the sRGB color space. ]]
>
> I saw this after I sent the last email. Perhaps it is best that flood
> and lighting colors be defined only in sRGB.

Yes, I think that's most consistent.

>> The specification of color isn't an interpolation, so I'm not sure how
>> 'color-interpolation-filters' would apply. Perhaps we need a new  
>> property
>> for this?
>>
>
> feTurbulence filter does use the value of 'color-interpolation-filter'
> to determine the color space:
>
> "The generated color and alpha values are in the color space determined
> by the ‘color-interpolation-filters’ property:"
>
> Tav

Right, but one doesn't specify a color as input to feTurbulence (unlike  
say feFlood, feSpecularLighting etc). And the colors/alpha generated by  
the feTurbulence algorithm are being interpolated.


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Erik Dahlstrom, Core Technology Developer, Opera Software
Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
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Received on Wednesday, 9 January 2013 15:34:16 UTC