[thelist] RGB, Hex and HSL

Mutes mutes00 at home.com
Sun Jul 29 04:06:00 CDT 2001


You're lifesaver! Those articles are extremely helpful. I am beginning to
understand all about colours.
Thanks Joe :)


----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Crawford <jcrawford at avencom.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] RGB, Hex and HSL


> Mutes wrote:
> > Hello,
> >     I wish to understand how RGB is translated into HSB for the
development
> > of a php script.
> > All that I'm aware of HSB is that the angle for Hue is defined as an
angle
> > relative to pure red on the color wheel...
> > So, if anybody could explain, it would be greatly appreciated :)
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
> One of my great joys when I was first learning PhotoShop was reading all
> the great colorspace FAQs and graphics file format FAQs which had come
> from usenet. Amazing stuff. Anyway - what you seek are color algorithms.
> Hopefully these will lead you in the right direction:
>
> http://www.cs.rit.edu/~ncs/color/t_convert.html
> http://www.inforamp.net/~poynton/Poynton-colour.html
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&rnum=7&selm=graphics/colorspace-faq_99
6142223%40rtfm.mit.edu
>
> Basically, you just have to learn what the math is.
>
> HTH!
> Joe <http://artlung.com/>
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