Pekka Väänänen personal blog
Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?
Let’s say you’re writing an image processing program. The program takes in an image, converts it to floating point, does some processing and finally saves the modified pixels to disk as 8-bit colors. The question today concerns how exactly the integer-to-float conversion should be done. There are two approaches which…
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Games & GraphicsSoftware Engineering2026
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 1, 2026 | Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256? by pplanu | 330 | 145 |
