Most color images are overlays of three greyscale images. It is possible to
combine any number of channels to assign
values from
to
to
each matrix pixel. This is often performed for satellite images. Three channels
can be combined to form a red-green-blue (RGB) colorspace, respectively. For
the presentation on a video screen the RGB colorspace is often reduced to
values between
and
since many screens can render only
colors.
Fig. 3 shows a color image of the Mandelbrot set.
Figure 3: Color image of the Mandelbrot set