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Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values
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lugnet.cad
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:53:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
> In lugnet.cad, Michael Heidemann wrote:
> > In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:
> > > In lugnet.cad, Timothy Gould wrote:¬
> > > > In lugnet.cad, Willy Tschager wrote:¬
> > > > 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.¬
> > >
> > > 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 on most colors but black! Especially "Aqua" and "Brown" are
> > > horror.¬ SNIP
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > w.
> >
> > I just found an old thread thread that has also no solution to the question of
> > the edge colors. http://news.lugnet.com/cad/dev/?n=4804.
> > So I believe we have to found one now.
> > I have found also other threads regarding this issue and I try to sum up:
> > 1) Black is the prefered edge color.
> > 2) Black should not be used on transparent parts. Solid color of the transparent
> > color should be used instead.
> > 3) On dark colors (dark has to be specified by the calculation above I like the
> > result at 52) a light gray edge should be used.
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> I like this proposal but I'd like to run a test file using the 52 threshold and
> try also different shades of gray first before diving into more detail.
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> w.
I set up a new LDConfig.ldr file in sync with the above. Check it out at the
wiki:
http://www.ldraw.org/wiki/index.php/LDConfig.ldr
w.
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 | | Re: Opinions needed for Color and Edge Values [DAT]
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| (...) Hi Willy, Why so many colors defined in present ldconfig.ldr ((URL) are missing from your chart? Otherwise, I had a look at the defined colors (LDraw, 0 to 28), imho there is not enough contrast for brown (6) and Violet (22). These colors (...) (18 years ago, 24-Nov-08, to lugnet.cad)
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