> Would the above numerical value per color provide a useful sorting for > your needs? It will sort colors with a blue component to one end, > colors with a green component but no blue component in the middle, and > colors with no green or blue components to the other end. It's hard to > visualize the effect of this since I am not good at imagining hundreds > of colors with three degrees of freedom per color simultaneously. If > that's what you want, great, but there's no such thing as a "correct" > sorting of colors.
What I've come up with (so far) is dividing the color spectrum into 12 sections (picture the standard color circle divided into 12 pie shapes, with white at the center and full color at the outside edges), and then sorting the swatches from lightest to darkest within each of those sections. It's pretty much the way the color filter mfg's swatch books arrange their colors, so it'll be familiar to users. Still working on alternatives, though, we'll see what comes out of the oven next month! - John _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
