RGB values

[anoji]

Dear All,
I want to know how to convert RGB values to a unique number in c#.
for an example in the television we can get one value as follows.
(alpha)R+(beeta)G+(gema)B

[r035198x]

Can you give more details. I thought the RGB was for Red, Green and Blue colors. What are the RGB values in your case and how do they map to integers.

[matthewaveryusa]

(alpha)R+(beeta)G+(gema)B. You can concatenate the number to have. every color has less than 256 tones in RBG so:

red*1000000+green*1000+blue = unique number. Imagine a color defined by:
red = 152
green = 12
blue = 250
then your unique number, if you follow this formula, will be:
152012250

public int RBGtoUnique(int red, int green, int blue)
{
return red*1000000+green*1000+blue;
}

use remainders for decompressing the number.

[anoji]

yes, R means red,G means green and B means blue.i can read RGB values of an image. but i want a single value for a picxel.

[tlhintoq]

yes, R means red,G means green and B means blue.i can read RGB values of an image. but i want a single value for a picxel.

MathewWavery gave you a pretty good plan.

Though I am personally curious... How do you plan on using this? I can't for the life of me think up a really good use for taking RGB values and making them a single number. You can't really be on a machine so hard up for RAM that you need one big int, instead of three shorts - can you?

[Plater]

Well the Color class takes RGB values and will give you a single integer value.

Seems sort of redundant to it:

int mycolor=Color.FromArgb(iRed,iGreen,iBlue).ToArgb();