On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Andrews <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Patrik Jonsson wrote: > >> I monitored this discussion with some interest. It seems to me that if >> we're going to talk about fringe features, sorting based on color >> would be up there. There's not even a well-defined sorting order since >> it's a multidimensional space... ;-) > > There clearly is a well-defined order (i.e. based on 8-bit HSBA > components), however there is no 1-dimensional ordering of colors that > matches our natural perception of colorspace.
The problem is that there are *more* than one well-defined order, which makes it not well-defined... Why HSBA and not RGBA? Or CMYK? Or any arbitrary redefinition of these? cheers, /Patrik ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
