[PD] data structures - color?
Hans-Christoph Steiner
hans at eds.org
Thu Mar 30 03:16:03 CEST 2006
On Mar 29, 2006, at 10:38 AM, Frank Barknecht wrote:
> Hallo,
> João Miguel Pais hat gesagt: // João Miguel Pais wrote:
>
>>> The reason to use a single number as a color was because 3-component
>>> colors in a data structure drawing command just seemed too
>>> unwieldly.
>>> But I'm starting to wonder if this was truly a wise decision to
>>> make.
>>> The trouble now is it would mean having two versions of every
>>> drawing
>>> instruction, yuck!
>>
>> yeah, but once all formats are equally compatible, then in no time
>> they
>> would be used by all (I think, it sound logical). of couse back-
>> comp would
>> be nice...
>
> Personally I think, 1-element colors are easier to handle, especially
> as we don't have [pak] yet. In an abstraction, I would only need to
> use one dollar variable to pass a color instead of three, and the
> required counting of positional arguments in data structure drawing
> instructions already is *very errorprone*. And using 3-element colors
> would triple the amount of color arguments to count! I'm already
> trembling ...
>
> My GEM patches OTOH have a lot of [unpack $1 $2 $3] constructs.
> Btw: It would be nice if the GEM color objects would accept lists
> instead of being forced to [unpack 0 0 0] in front of every colorRGB
> object.
>
> But I admit: Generally colors don't map well to a one-dimensional
> scale, as the data structure colors show. Colors generally are better
> mapped to things like a 2-dimensional color circle or to three or four
> sliders. Encoding RGB color in one float is hard enough, but how to
> encode RGBA into one float?
>
> This really is a hard question and probably it is another area, where
> a general mapping abstraction library will be necessary.
Maybe a comprimise. We could make the R,G,B separate floats into a
symbol for the data structures, like:
r1g1b1, r0.53234g0.0123b1.0, r0g0b0
.hc
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