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Re: A unified plan for Minza colors

From:Jörg Rhiemeier <joerg_rhiemeier@...>
Date:Tuesday, July 5, 2005, 14:21
Hallo!

Herman Miller wrote:

> I've been revising the Minza color system. Originally, the colors were > borrowed from Lindiga, which uses a decimal system based on the hue of a > color in a paint program. I picked 10 equally spaced hues and used these > to define the basic colors. But I want to include the Zireen colors also > in Minza, and Zireen color vision is very different from human color > vision. I've been ignoring the differences, but I realized that what I > really need is a system based on the perceived wavelength of light. I > played around with a couple of options and settled on a logarithmic > scale, dividing the range from 369 nm to 738 nm into 8 equal steps. > > [more stuff snup] > > http://www.io.com/~hmiller/png/minza-colors.png > > [...]
This is an interesting approach, using a physical definition of colours and reconciling the very different colour spaces of two different spaces with each other. Well done! Greetings, Jörg.

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