On 25 June 2015 at 07:14, Guillaume Chatelet via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 21:08:03 UTC, Guillaume Chatelet wrote: >> >> On Wednesday, 24 June 2015 at 16:05:31 UTC, Manu wrote: >>> >>> On a tangent, I need a name for the struct that will represent >>> HSL/HSV/HSI/HCY. >>> They're all basically identical, and might as well be a parameter to a >>> shared type... but I can't think of a name for that type! >_< >>> I can't reasonably call it any of those or it would be confused, >>> rather, each of those would be an alias for an instantiation of each >>> type. >>> I'm thinking along the lines of PolarRGB? It's not really that though. >>> I can't think of any other good names. >>> alias HSL = PolarRGB!(Type.HSL); >>> >>> Naming things is so hard! >> >> >> I don't like PolarRGB since it doesn't have a lot to do with RGB. >> >> HueSpace!(Type.HSL) ? > > > OK I take that back. HSL expresses color in the RGB space you're right. > Maybe CylindricalRGB ? It's a volume after all.
They're not cylindrical, they each represent a different shape; cylinder, hexacone, double-hexacone, weird-warped-crooked-cube-on-its-corner ;) They really are polar coordinates of a sort, although even that's not really a good description, since it's a hex rather than a circle. Perhaps the word 'angular' is more fitting than polar in this case... but that doesn't get me any closer to a good name! >_<