Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-06-01 Thread Alexandre Prokoudine
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote:   From: Christian zwahlendesign.ch   Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:53:43 +0200   Hi Michael   The HSL is one of the best color models. Munsell anyone? :) Alexandre ___ Gimp-developer mailing list

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-06-01 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Sunday 31 May 2009 05:36:00 pm Øyvind Kolås wrote: snip The colors selected in this manner will likely be used in a different color space than the one they are selected in anyways. This means that undefined regions of the colorspace and computational complexity are only a concern of the

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Michael Schumacher
Christian wrote: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584338 A bit more text than just pasting a Bugzilla link would be nice. Michael -- GIMP http://www.gimp.org | IRC: irc://irc.gimp.org/gimp Wiki http://wiki.gimp.org | .de: http://gimpforum.de Plug-ins

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Christian
Hi Michael The HSL is one of the best color models. The colors are symmetrical ordered. Advantages 1. symmetrical 2. color values are not rounded (you have more colors than in the HEX model) 3. logical (no senselessly black axis) 4. equidistant colors in the color picker 5. the right color

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Liam R E Quin
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 17:53 +0200, Christian wrote: Looking at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=135649action=view my first feeling is that I use the triangle/circle a lot, to choose complementary colours. I'd actually like it if there were a mark on opposite side of the circle to the

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Krawitz
From: Christian i...@zwahlendesign.ch Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:53:43 +0200 Hi Michael The HSL is one of the best color models. The colors are symmetrical ordered. Advantages 1. symmetrical 2. color values are not rounded (you have more colors than in the HEX model)

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Omari Stephens
Robert Krawitz wrote: From: Christian i...@zwahlendesign.ch Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:53:43 +0200 Hi Michael The HSL is one of the best color models. The colors are symmetrical ordered. Advantages 1. symmetrical 2. color values are not rounded (you have more

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Omari Stephens
Omari Stephens wrote: Robert Krawitz wrote: From: Christian i...@zwahlendesign.ch Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 17:53:43 +0200 Hi Michael The HSL is one of the best color models. The colors are symmetrical ordered. Advantages 1. symmetrical 2. color values are not

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Robert Krawitz
Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:56:25 + From: Omari Stephens x...@csail.mit.edu Omari Stephens wrote: Mockup is here: http://ocaml.xvm.mit.edu/~xsdg/stuff/gimp/hsl-doublecone.png Note that when I mention HSL below, I mean HSL with its traditional coordinate system, as

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Hal V. Engel
On Sunday 31 May 2009 01:56:25 pm Omari Stephens wrote: his also makes sense in terms of the colors that humans can perceive — we can more-easily perceive differences in highly-saturated colors than we can differences in mostly-white swatches with a hint of color. This is not correct. Humans

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Omari Stephens
Hal V. Engel wrote: On Sunday 31 May 2009 01:56:25 pm Omari Stephens wrote: his also makes sense in terms of the colors that humans can perceive — we can more-easily perceive differences in highly-saturated colors than we can differences in mostly-white swatches with a hint of color. This

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Omari Stephens
Robert Krawitz wrote: Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 20:56:25 + From: Omari Stephens x...@csail.mit.edu Omari Stephens wrote: Mockup is here: http://ocaml.xvm.mit.edu/~xsdg/stuff/gimp/hsl-doublecone.png Note that when I mention HSL below, I mean HSL with its

Re: [Gimp-developer] HSL Color Picker

2009-05-31 Thread Øyvind Kolås
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Robert Krawitz r...@alum.mit.edu wrote:   Omari Stephens wrote:     - This requires more computation to use because of the odd       shape of the space of valid coordinates.  That is, not all       valid coordinates are valid colors. What I don't like about