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> L is for lightness (0-100%), C is for chroma (0-0.5), H is for hue (0-360deg). My programmer brain immediately jumped away in disgust. I'm sure there's many

by otikik 1y ago

> L is for lightness (0-100%), C is for chroma (0-0.5), H is for hue (0-360deg). My programmer brain immediately jumped away in disgust. I'm sure there's many good reasons for choosing those, but it seems to me it could have easily have been done with 3 percentages (0-100% for the 3 numbers). Way easier to work with programmatically.

dimava 1y ago
Hue is a cyclic value, so it has to be in degrees Chroma cap is dependent on Lightness and Hue, so it has to be unsized to preserve "equal delta leads to equal color distinction" concept In color spaces you just don't have any math that can be done without following its structure You may check https://oklch.com/ https://oklch.com/ on how the color space looks like
- otikik 1y ago
  > Hue is a cyclic value, so it has to be in degrees There's nothing magical about the number 360. You can do cycles in the 0-1 range. You can even make trigonometry with that (no radians). See: http://pico8wiki.com/index.php?title=Sin http://pico8wiki.com/index.php?title=Sin