[algogeeks] Re: Color Matching Paint at the hardware store Algos

2008-06-24 Thread Laurence Gonsalves
On Jun 24, 11:16 am, "M. Funkibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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

[algogeeks] Re: Color Matching Paint at the hardware store Algos

2008-06-24 Thread Geoffrey Summerhayes
On Jun 24, 2:16 pm, "M. Funkibut" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. Don't really know how they did it.

[algogeeks] Re: Color Matching Paint at the hardware store Algos

2008-06-24 Thread Guillermo Garcia
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. > >

[algogeeks] Color Matching Paint at the hardware store Algos

2008-06-24 Thread M. Funkibut
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

[algogeeks] Re: Bus routing algorithm

2008-06-24 Thread M. Funkibut
> > I am not much clear about the 3rd Requirement, "3. Min. the number of bus > changes" > Please explain. Perhaps it is just a count of nodes tranversed? Perhaps nodecount-2 [don't count start or finish?] -MF --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message becau

[algogeeks] cormen clarification

2008-06-24 Thread zee
referring to the chapter 15 ( dynamic programming ) of CLR .. how to prove that the number of sub problems of the matrix multiplication problem is O(n^2) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Algorit

[algogeeks] Re: algo for finding the union of two sets ...

2008-06-24 Thread Sathya Narayanan
u can use in trees and weighted merge and path compression to get a amoortised log*n algo for union which is mostly used in MST probs 2008/6/23 Geoffrey Summerhayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Jun 23, 12:36 pm, zee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > do we have an algo for finding the union of two se