Am I wrong to think that HSL (using some perceptual basis for getting luminance 
from RGB) would be in all cases superior to ad-hoc HSV or HSI, which would not 
have perceptually uniform brightness for all hues or saturations?


On Jul 3, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Stefan Stavrev wrote:

> Jeremy, the box filter for color images I told you about needs hue and 
> saturation. I can't just apply the grayscale version of the box filter to all 
> channels independently, from what I have read it leads to bad results. So I 
> will have a general case where you can apply the grayscale box filter to any 
> number of channels you want, and the other case is specifically for color 
> images where I will use that algorithm.
> 
> But I am not sure about one thing. When they say for an algorithm you need to 
> go to HSI, do they mean you MUST use HSI only, or it is ok to use other 
> formulas for hue and saturation like in HSV or HSL. The author is not clear 
> about these things, sometimes he says use HSI and sometimes he says you can 
> use either HSI or HSL or whatever.

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Larry Gritz
l...@larrygritz.com


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