[cairo-commit] [cairo-www] src/summerofcode

[Carl Worth]

 src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

New commits:
commit a4e8127635b298b8d2e0fd5123440588b7dcfe4f
Author: cloos <cloos at web>
Date:   Mon Jan 19 15:17:53 2009 -0800

diff --git a/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn b/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
index 2ca8a3f..cfc8e93 100644
--- a/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
+++ b/src/summerofcode/ideas.mdwn
@@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ challenge you're looking for.
     This involves either extending the pixman library to support the new format, or write code for
     Porter-Duff compositing on the new format and make cairo use them for ARGB64.    
 
+    Conversions between the 16-bit floats used by colour spaces such as scRGB and 32-bit floats
+    should use the algorithms explained in Jeroen van der Zijp’s [Fast Half Float Conversions](ftp://www.fox-toolkit.org/pub/fasthalffloatconversion.pdf).
+
   * [Easy] Add a performance/conformance suite for the vector backends.
 
     One goal would be to aim to make the output file size competitive to other generators (e.g. gs).