color spaces

[Ralf Gommers]

2009/10/21 Stéfan van der Walt <stefan at sun.ac.za>

>
> Hi Ralf
>
> 2009/10/21 Ralf Gommers <ralf.gommers at googlemail.com>:
> > I'm working on the color spaces, and would like some feedback. Doing
> color
> > space conversions is very simple, but finding the right references and
> > making sure things are correct is a real pain. So I'm wondering what
> spaces
> > are useful and unambiguously defined.
>
> Let's stick to the unambiguous cases and see what feedback we get.  If
> the user requirements are more ambitious, we'll await patches :)
>
> Sure. I'm done for now, we have support for four spaces: RGB, HSV, XYZ, RGB
CIE.

Other spaces that could be included are HSL, CMYK, LAB and LUV, but let's
wait till what is there now gets some usage first.


> We should definitely link to Poynton's FAQ in the docs:
>
> http://www.poynton.com/ColorFAQ.html
>

Yes, very useful doc.

Cheers,
Ralf


>
> Good stuff!
>
> Cheers
> Stéfan
>
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