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Colours in Virtual Worlds

How would you describe a colour to a computing device?

Concept of Colours

This video introduces the concept of codifying colour into numerical values. Using these numerical representations, any virtual object can be given a colour.

Source-code of example used in video is available in “See Also” section below.

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