RGB to Pantone? -> http://www.netfront.fr/Services/rgb2pantone/
On 6/24/08, M. Funkibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In the USA currently there is a television commercial in which people > bring in weird stuff [like a giant purple walrus toy] and have paint > made to that 'exact' color. > > Many of us have gone to Home Depot/Lowes/whatever with a piece of trim > and had paint made that 'matches'. > > How does this work? > > I assume there is a 'scanner' [some sort of filtered photoelectric > eye] that outputs an RGB triple to a software routine that then > produces a paint 'formula' that hardwarestoreguy can mix up. > > But how do you get from RGB to the paint formula? Can you go from a > paint formula to RGB? Does anybody know where I can find a reference > book/article on this? I've looked and come up empty. > > TIA > -MF > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorithm Geeks" group. To post to this group, send email to algogeeks@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/algogeeks -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
