HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions (2011)

Re:HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions ... by liminal on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:20AM (#11437999)

I wrote a viewer to better understand the HCL color space. By seeing it in 3D and then looking at different slices you can start to build an intuition about how the colors relate to each other and which colors are available at different parameters.

http://briancort.com/hclviewer/

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Re:HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions ... by anewhnaccount on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @07:27AM (#11438022)

That's pretty neat. The 3d shape looks a little odd for some reason to be though. I think the perspective or projection isn't quite as I'd expect.

EDIT: Maybe if I could tilt the camera to look from above and below that would be better? Also it would be cool if it worked as a colour picker too. (Okay, that's enough feature requests for now...)

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Re:HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions ... by liminal on Friday April 08, 2016 @01:39AM (#11452763)

I'm happy to share the code, but realistically I'm unlikely to add features. There are already so many colour pickers that I didn't see the point in adding that functionality.

I created the tool while putting together a couple blog posts on how to use colours effectively in data visualizations. There are a number of links in those posts to other pickers out there: https://briancort.com/?p=146 https://briancort.com/?p=174

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Re:HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions ... by liminal on Friday April 08, 2016 @02:18AM (#11452881)

I posted all the code online: https://github.com/thatcort/hclviewer/ https://github.com/thatcort/hclSurfaceGenerator/

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Re:HCL: a color model that actually matches our perceptions ... by laughinghan on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @02:30PM (#11440710)

This is the absolute best take on HCL I've seen yet! This is definitely going to be my go-to tool from now on.

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