Wikipedia at least refer to these as cylindrical colour spaces
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Manu via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > 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! >_<
