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_header(Color, set the current color)
_names(Color,[34]u*[bsifd])
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.EN
.SH PARAMETERS
_phead(_param1 _param2 _param3)
Specify new red, green, and blue values for the current color.
_phead(_param4)
Specifies a new alpha value for the current color.
Included only in the four-argument _cmnd(Color4) commands.
_names(Color,[34]u*[bsifd]v)
.SH PARAMETERS
_phead(_param1)
Specifies a pointer to an array that contains red, green, blue,
and (sometimes) alpha values.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The GL stores both a current single-valued color index
and a current four-valued RGBA color.
_cmnd sets a new four-valued RGBA color.
_cmnd has two major variants:
_cmnd(Color3) and _cmnd(Color4).
_cmnd(Color3) variants specify new red,
green,
and blue values explicitly
and set the current alpha value to 1.0 (full intensity) implicitly.
_cmnd(Color4) variants specify all four color components explicitly.
.P
_cmnd(Color3b), _cmnd(Color4b),
_cmnd(Color3s), _cmnd(Color4s), _cmnd(Color3i), and _cmnd(Color4i) take 
three or four signed byte, short, or long integers as arguments.
When \f3v\fP is appended to the name,
the color commands can take a pointer to an array of such values.
.P
Current color values are stored in floating-point format,
with unspecified mantissa and exponent sizes.
Unsigned integer color components,
when specified,
are linearly mapped to floating-point values such that the largest
representable value maps to 1.0 (full intensity),
and 0 maps to 0.0 (zero intensity).
Signed integer color components,
when specified,
are linearly mapped to floating-point values such that the most positive
representable value maps to 1.0,
and the most negative representable value maps to \-1.0. (Note that
this mapping does not convert 0 precisely to 0.0.)
Floating-point values are mapped directly.
.P
Neither floating-point nor signed integer values are clamped
to the range [0,1] before the current color is updated.
However,
color components are clamped to this range before they are interpolated
or written into a color buffer.
.SH NOTES
The initial value for the current color is (1, 1, 1, 1). 
.P
The current color can be updated at any time.
In particular,
_cmnd can be called between a call to _cmnd(Begin) and the corresponding
call to _cmnd(End).
.SH ASSOCIATED GETS
_cmnd(Get) with argument _const(CURRENT_COLOR)
.br
_cmnd(Get) with argument _const(RGBA_MODE)
.SH SEE ALSO
_cmnd(Index)
