Problem 2542. Convert a grayscale image into RGB colour format, preserving data type

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Guillaume on 2 Sep 2014

Really, you need to add more test cases. You're not even testing that your condition of 'ensuring that the datatype of the input image matrix is preserved' has been fulfilled.

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