Please forgive my oh-so-tainted presence, but… I just thought of something that could be great or moot, I’d appreciate your opinions:
Images.jl encodes all pixel intensities as a float between 0 and 1, even though the real value behind the scene is any of the UInts, as is the case in all image formats. They use FixedPointNumbers.jl to accomplish this. Could we use the same trick here? i.e. allow for float like behavior and appearance but work with actual Ints for all the above-listed and indisputable benefits?
Just a thought.