Re: [compositing] Incorrect recommended implemntation of mix-blend-mode: saturation

On 2021-04-02 07:00, Callum Morrisson wrote:
> RE:Â https://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/#valdef-blend-mode-saturation 
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/compositing-1/#valdef-blend-mode-saturation>
>
> The math used in the functions:
> Lum(C) = 0.3 x Cred + 0.59 x Cgreen + 0.11 x Cblue
> and
> Sat(C) = max(Cred, Cgreen, Cblue) - min(Cred, Cgreen, Cblue)
> seems to be taken from the calculations for Luma and Chroma 
> (respectively) in the LCH color space (as seen here 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#Hue_and_chroma> and here 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV#Luma,_chroma_and_hue_to_RGB>).

Not at all. LCH doesn't have a "Luma" and your two links go to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

which, as the name implies, are about HSL and HSV.

The "Lum" here is

a) not CIE Luminance
b) uses the weights for the obsolete NTSC colorspace
c) operates directly on gamma-encoded values.

The closest would be 1960's YIQ luma.

> However, the expectation would be that it's derived from 
> lightness/luminance and saturation from the HSL or HSV/HSB color spaces.

I don't see why, those spaces are also pretty messed up. (HSL Lightness 
s the same for blue and yellow, for example).

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Chris Lilley
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