std.experimental.color, request reviews

[Danni Coy via Digitalmars-d]

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 at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 25 June 2015 at 07:14, Guillaume Chatelet via Digitalmars-d
> <digitalmars-d at 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! >_<