1. A method of data compression comprising: representing each sub-pixel of each pixel of a display with a pointer corresponding to an attribute of the sub-pixel, the attribute being a floating point binary number; and determining an overall attribute of each pixel by any one of: assigning the attribute of the sub-pixels of the pixel to the attribute of the pixel when the sub-pixels of the pixel are represented by an identical pointer; and resolving the attribute of the pixel by the attributes of the sub-pixels of the pixel when the sub-pixels of the pixel are represented by non-identical pointers.