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COLOR TOOL
CEDAR 5.3 — FOR INTERNAL XEROX USE ONLY
ColorTool
Darlene Plebon, Maureen Stone
© Copyright 1985 Xerox Corporation. All rights reserved.
Abstract: The ColorTool allows one to manipulate the color of a patch using any of a variety of color systems. The ColorTool is valuable for experimenting and learning about the various color schemes and how they interrelate to one another. A client interface is provided so that illustrators might use the ColorTool for color specification by a user.
Keywords: color, color models, color specification, illustrators
XEROX Xerox Corporation
Palo Alto Research Center
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304
For Internal Xerox Use Only
1. Overview
The ColorTool permits one to interactively manipulate the color of a test patch using a variety of color systems. The color systems provided are RGB (red, green, blue), HSV (hue, saturation, value), HSL (hue, saturation, lightness), CNS (color naming scheme), and CIE (the international standard scheme).
Sliders for each parameter of the color schemes make the ColorTool highly interactive. Since each scheme is interactively updated whenever one of the parameters change, intuitive understanding of the color schemes is possible through experimenting.