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From: jangr@microsoft.UUCP (Jan GRAY)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: New color space
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Date: 14 Jun 91 02:15:39 GMT
References: <1991Jun8.002320.21449@agate.berkeley.edu>
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In article <1991Jun8.002320.21449@agate.berkeley.edu> shirriff@sprite.berkeley.edu (Ken Shirriff) writes:
>I've come up with an idea for defining a color space, based on the 3 axes:
>red-neutral-green,
>blue-neutral-yellow, and
>white-neutral-black.
...
>Has anyone defined a color space based on these axes before or have
>I reinvented the wheel?  (I checked Foley & Van Dam, but it only described
>RGB, YIQ, HSV, HLS.)

Yes.  See Ware, C. and Cowan, W., "The RGYB Color Geometry", ACM TOG 9.2,
April 1990, pp. 226-232.

Jan Gray  jangr@microsoft.com  Microsoft Corp., Redmond, WA  206-882-8080