[iaufwg] FITS conventions

[Mark Calabretta]

On Tue 2006/02/14 11:55:27 -0000, Clive Page wrote
in a message to: IAU-FWG <iaufwg at nrao.edu>

>I have read Mark's document with interest.  Colour representation is a 
>complex subject, and I suspect that if the FITS community tries to find a 
>way of solving it completely, it might take a long time.

Clive,

The machinery for RBG, HSB and CMYK would be trivial, we only need to
agree to use CTYPEia and the few simple equations.

sRGB (or similar), CIELAB and CIELUV could be added later but using the
same formalism.  Colour LUTS would be additional.

Cheers, Mark