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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by amelius on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:39PM (#48439323)
We already have 3-digit hex colors, e.g. #fff is white.

I don't see the point of using decimals here. You only lose resolution.

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:39PM (#48439326)
author here. i find it hard to count with letters
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by thot_experiment on Sunday June 07, 2026 @07:27PM (#48439708)
Dang, given all the cool visual work on your website I absolutely would not have expected that. Always good to be reminded how disparate we all are from one another.

Makes me grateful I got my mom to sign that waiver to let me get on Neopets, I don't even see the hex code anymore, I just see marigold, umber, vermilion.

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by amelius on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:42PM (#48439359)
Well, I find it hard to reason with RGB values. It is much easier to use HSV, to be honest, after looking up the Hue with a tool.
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:43PM (#48439369)
author here. that's okay this tool is for me
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by amelius on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:45PM (#48439380)
That's certain okay with me, but I assumed you came here to get feedback.
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Sunday June 07, 2026 @06:53PM (#48439454)
i didn't
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by DOGMATICA on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:38PM (#48440444)
that's so real tbh
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by Hasnep on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:40PM (#48440458)
Sorry who are you? Are you the author?
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by wavemode on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:44PM (#48440477)
yes that's the author, but he didn't submit this to HackerNews
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:45AM (#48442017)
i'm not a man
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by yummybrainz on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:50AM (#48445325)
Username doesn't check out :P
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Monday June 08, 2026 @10:00AM (#48445465)
it's been a wild two decades since i picked it
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by yummybrainz on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:22PM (#48447365)
You go, girl!
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:13PM (#48449009)
i'm not a girl
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by graypegg on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:47PM (#48450748)
You go, simple-as! :)

Hopefully this thread isn't putting you down. Sorry if it's coming off like that.

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by yummybrainz on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:29PM (#48465398)
Yeah, completely unintentional on my part, but I do be dumb sometimes.
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by yummybrainz on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @02:28PM (#48465388)
Welp, I done goofed.

Fuck it, just have a great day :P

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by efilife on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @08:57AM (#48460522)
https://www.todepond.com/sky/non-binary/

you go with any pronouns so why bring this up?

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @06:03PM (#48468399)
author here. it's good for the video
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by efilife on Sunday June 14, 2026 @04:32PM (#48532329)
I don't know that video you are talking about
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by humbugtheman on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:42AM (#48441995)
author here
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by wahnfrieden on Sunday June 07, 2026 @08:19PM (#48440016)
They did not submit it and they can't take it down either
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by AnthonBerg on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:03AM (#48441209)
Feedback is when it's useful.
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by sph on Monday June 08, 2026 @02:33AM (#48441949)
If one works with shaders, you get the best of both worlds just by dividing by 10:

  vec3 color = vec3(1.0, 0.3, 0.9);
One decimal digit ought to be enough for anyone.
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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by lpghatguy on Monday June 08, 2026 @09:22AM (#48445026)
Take care here though, because shaders are almost always working in linear sRGB colors, while color codes are almost always defined in gamma-encoded sRGB.

This property makes it mildly annoying to copy color constants between different contexts.

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Re:Splash Is a Colour Format by amelius on Monday June 08, 2026 @12:55PM (#48447845)
Also if you divide by 10 your maximum is 0.9, not 1.0.

So you still need a calculator to map between the two.

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