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Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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Date: 
Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:32:21 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
   In lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote:
   I personally like the black edgelines more, because it is more likely the
original instructions. And I think that this is the way to go. But it
should not in any case be a real black edge. Sometimes I would prefer
a more light-black, and sometimes (for the dark colors) a more white
edge, so that you can see where is the brick!

I agree with you. These are the LDraw Core Colors with official LEGO RGBs
Scott has worked on with a #1F1F1F edge I added for the test:



You can do some tests yourself. Files are here:

http://www.holly-wood.it/tmp/LDConfig.zip

I’m not sure on the lighter edge for dark colors though. First of all how
do you define “dark color”. Is it:

(R + G + B)/3 = < 127.5

In this case a little prog which accepts decimal as well as hexidecimal
RGBs and outputs a “Dark/Light” would help ;-)

w.

The intensity of a colour is usually given by

I = 0.299R + 0.587G + 0.114B

so your cutoff should be based on that rather than a simple mean.

Tim



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  Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
 
(...) Hmmm ... where do these values come from? I changed the edge line using this calculation and used a 50% Gray for the lighter edge and pitch black for a dark edge (applied only to the first row, the rest is still #1F1F1F). IMHO it looks AWFUL (...) (16 years ago, 21-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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  Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
 
(...) I agree with you. These are the LDraw Core Colors with official LEGO RGBs Scott has worked on with a #1F1F1F edge I added for the test: (URL) You can do some tests yourself. Files are here: (URL) I'm not sure on the lighter edge for dark (...) (16 years ago, 19-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad, FTX)

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