Converting Colour from four floats / bytes to one single (float)

convert-color-to-single.cs

        /// <summary>
        /// Transforms the 4 color bytes to a single float.
        /// The resulting float might not be a valid float number; but only the bytes
        /// are important for usage later on the graphics card
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="color">Any color</param>
        /// <returns>The four color bytes as one float</returns>
        Single ConvertColorToSingle(Color color)
        {            
            byte[] bytes = BitConverter.GetBytes(((Color)color).PackedValue);
            return BitConverter.ToSingle(bytes, 0);             
        }