FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
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How large is the color palette?
The image below is a rendering of the complete palette of 2000 colors.
Each of the 24 rows is a hue.
Each hue is divided into 10 columns of saturation.
Each saturation is divided into 10 rows of lightness.
The goal was to make a human readable color scheme;
HSL is very user friendly.
Sample:
ACTUAL DPI
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COLOR
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NON COLOR
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LIGHTNESS
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SATURATION
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RED
RED-ORG
ORANGE
ORG-YLW
YELLOW
YLW-grn
YLW-GRN
GRN-ylw
GREEN
GRN-cyn
GRN-CYN
grn-CYN
CYAN
blu-CYN
BLU-CYN
BLU-cyn
BLUE
vlt-BLU
VLT-BLU
VLT-blu
VIOLET
VLT-red
VLT-RED
vlt-RED
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WHITE
BLACK
GREY
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DARKEST
DARKER
DARK
NTL-DRK
NEUTRAL
NTL-LGT
LIGHT
LIGHTER
LIGHTEST
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DULLEST
DULLER
DULL
NTL-DLL
NEUTRAL
NTL-BRT
BRIGHT
BRTER
BRTEST
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Each pixel in the source image is compared with its neighbors. A large change in the neighborhood is opaque and a no change is transparent. This is a technique common to programmers of computer vision, it's a called a
Sobel operator.
Speed has improved enormously since the original. Processing the entire screen is now less than a few seconds.
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How does the lasso work?
The "processing area" is selected horizontally between pairs of verticle lasso lines. Drawing a box is just as effective as drawing only the left and right edges. Drawing a loop is also functional.
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What image sizes do you support?
The image size is limited by the system's available memory. It will support all images captured with the device.
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NEW! What are your color names?
The color names are modified from HTML/CSS and viewable
here
The color map displays all available colors, it is the "color" button on the main page. The current functions are to halve the map via Hue and/or Saturation, simplifying the image for easier navigation.
The color neighborhood is available while a color is selected from the top ten list. Clicking "Neighborhood" will display information on the selected color, the nearest color name and 6 nearby color names.
verticle
horizontal
The top ten lists colors in descending order. To display the next ten colors, ensure "Process Selection" is highlighted, then hit "Next". To go back, hit "Prev".
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