std.experimental.color, request reviews

[Danni Coy via Digitalmars-d]

I would probably go with "perceptual" or something like it


On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Danni Coy <danni.coy at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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! >_<