- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 12:42:08 +0200
- To: www-style@w3.org, "Benjamin D. Gray" <BDGray@uwyo.edu>
- CC: www-svg@w3.org
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, 10:57:40 PM, Benjamin wrote: >>Steven Pemberton: BDG> I like solution 2 from above: >>2) Take a consistent naming scheme that properly addresses all >> dimensions of the color space, and map this naming scheme >> algorithmically to >appropriate colours. For instance: BDG> with a few changes: BDG> (most from BDG> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2002May/0143.html) BDG> <color>::= [<saturation> || <lightness> || <transparency>] <hue> BDG> <lightness>::= extra-dark | dark | semi-dark | semi-light | light | BDG> extra-light | lighter | darker BDG> <saturation>::= extra-dull | dull | semi-dull | semi-bright | BDG> bright | extra-bright | duller | brighter BDG> <transparency>::= opaque | semi-opaque | semi-transparent | transparent BDG> <hue>::= <prime> | <general> | <special> BDG> <prime>::= red | green | blue | white | cyan | magenta | yellow | black BDG> <general>::= navy | lime | teal | aqua | maroon | purple | fuchsia | BDG> olive | BDG> gray | silver BDG> <special>::= pink | brown | tan | orange | yellow-green | green-cyan | BDG> cyan-blue | blue-magenta | magenta-red | <possible others> Thats an interesting start, but you do not say what the algorithm is to convert these to colors nor show that they are evenly distributed, which even the rough and unscientific list produced by Steven convinced you of (he is right, the X11 names are unevenly distributed in the perceptual gamut, but http://www.cwi.nl/~steven/css/x11huegraph.html does not show that this is the case). Given your choice of hue names I am fairly sure that your selection is not, in fact, evenly distributed but would need to see the algorithm you propose in order to demonstrate this. -- Chris mailto:chris@w3.org
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