- From: Chad Owen Yoshikawa <chad@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 12:25:37 -0700 (PDT)
- To: jreiter@mail.slc.edu (Jordan Reiter)
- Cc: dmiser@Comps.COM, www-html@w3.org
> "If you want to see the menu, click on the light yellow-green polygon. > If you want to see pictures of me, click on the dark yellow-green polygon > If you want to send me e-mail, click on the cyan polygon..." > get the point? Defining shapes by colors limits both the graphical > possibilities of the images (they would have to be blocks of flat color) as > well as difficult coding (particularly the calibration between the exact > color of the image and its hexadecimal code). FYI - In photo-editing programs, e.g. Corel Photopaint, there are a couple of ways to define regions or masks - shapes and colors. Defining region by color is easier (than by shape) if you want to do something like pick all the yellow spots on a butterfly's wings. The shapes are defined not by one color, but by a union of colors so that the regions would not have to be of the same color. So it seems that a standard way of defining regions is by both color and shape. The only problem with adding this 'color region' functionality to the browser is that it's making the browser more and more like a graphics program, and the functionality isn't strictly necessary (since by using the same photo-editing program, shape coords can be generated by color region or by hand). -Chad -- Finger me for my pgp public key Today's random buzzword: type-safe telephony
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