[PIL]: Question On Changing Colour

[Andrea Gavana]

I have tried your solution, Terry:

> new_hue   # your 'basic color', just the hue part
> rgb_base  # color from the basic button image
> rgb_new   # the new color you want to replace rgb_base with
>
> rgb_new = hsv_to_rgb( (new_hue,) + rgb_to_hsv(rgb_base)[1:])


thanks a lot for your suggestion! However, either I did not understand it
correctly or I am doing something stupid in my code. Here is a small
example:

from colorsys import *

# that is the old colour --> GREY
rgb_old = (0.7, 0.7, 0.7)

# Transform the new colour in HSV
hsv_old = rgb_to_hsv(rgb_old[0], rgb_old[1], rgb_old[2])

# this is the new colour --> BLUE
rgb_new = (0.0, 0.0, 1.0)

# Transform the new colour in HSV
hsv_new = rgb_to_hsv(rgb_new[0], rgb_new[1], rgb_new[2])

# I take only the Hue part of the new colour
new_hue = hsv_new[0]

# Get the new colour
rgb_new = hsv_to_rgb(new_hue, hsv_old[1], hsv_old[2])

print rgb_old
print rgb_new
print rgb_old == rgb_new


This prints:

(0.69999999999999996, 0.69999999999999996, 0.69999999999999996)
(0.69999999999999996, 0.69999999999999996, 0.69999999999999996)
True

So, no matter what colour I choose as a "new" colour, the Hue part of the
new colour doesn't change in RGB. In other words, leaving the old value for
"Saturation" and "Value" makes the presence of the "Hue" part useless. But
why in the world does this happen? If a colour is defined by 3 values,
changes in every single value should change the colour too...
Ah, thanks God for the existence of RGB ;-)

Thanks a lot for every suggestion.

Andrea.

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