NAME

       al_color_distance_ciede2000_lab - Allegro 5 API

SYNOPSIS

              #include <allegro5/allegro_color.h>

DESCRIPTION

       This function computes the CIEDE2000 color difference between two RGB colors.  This is a visually uniform
       color difference, unlike for example the RGB distance.

       When using the RGB distance (Euklidean distance between two RGB triplets) there can be color  pairs  with
       the  same  distance, where the colors of one pair appear to be almost the same color, while the colors of
       the other pair look quite different.  This is improved by using the L*a*b* color space which was designed
       with  perceptual  uniformity in mind.  However it still is not completely uniform.  The CIEDE2000 formula
       contains some additional transformations to fix that.

       The returned color distance is roughly in the range 0 (identical color) to 1 (completely different color)
       - but values greater than one are possible.

              Note:  This  function uses al_color_lab(3alleg5) internally which defines the L component to be in
              the range 0..1 (and not 0..100 as is sometimes seen).

SINCE

       5.2.3