rgbhls

Converts RGB color values to HLS.

Available in version 5.0.0 and later.

Prototype

	function rgbhls (
		rgb  : numeric   
	)

	return_val  :  numeric

Arguments

An array of Red, Green, Blue (RGB) color values. This array can be of any shape, but the rightmost dimension must be 3 for specifying the RGB values. The Red, Green, and Blue values are intensities in the range [0.,1.].

Return value

The returned value is an array of the same dimensions and dimension sizes as the input array. The input RGB values will have been replaced with their Hue, Lightness, Saturation (HLS) equivalents. If any values in the input array are double precision, the returned array will be double precision.

Description

This function determines the HLS equivalents to RGB color values.

The returned Hue values will be in the range [0., 360.). A value of (R,0.,0.) in the input RGB space will result in a hue of 120. in the HLS space.

The returned lightness values will be in the range [0.,100.]. Lightness is a measure of the quantity of light - a lightness of 0. is black, and a lightness of 100. gives white. The pure hues occur at lightness value 50. The lightness should be thought of as a percentage.

The returned Saturation values will be in the range [0.,100.]. Saturation is a measure of how much white light is mixed with the color. Saturation values of 0. represent greys (with a grey value equal to V). Saturation values of 100. are fully saturated colors. The hue is technically undefined when S=0; the code leaves H at its previous value when S=0. (0. initially). The fully saturated pure hues occur when S=100. and L=50.

For a complete description of the algorithm see:

1. Foley, James D. and van Dam, Andries,"Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics",Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1982.
2. Smith, A.R.,"Color Gamut Transformation Pairs",SIGGRAPH '78 Proceedings, published as Computer Graphics, 12(3),August 1978, pp.12-19.

Missing values are not honored.

See Also

hlsrgb, rgbhsv, hsvrgb, yiqrgb, rgbyiq

Examples

Example 1

The following:

begin
  hls = rgbhls((/1.0d, 0.0d, 0.0d/))
  print(hls)
end

Variable: hls
Type: double
Total Size: 24 bytes
            3 values
Number of Dimensions: 1
Dimensions and sizes:   [3]
Coordinates: 
(0)      120
(1)       50
(2)      100

The following:

begin
  rgb = (/                                       \
           (/(/1., 0., 0./), (/0., 1., 0./)/),   \
           (/(/0., 0., 1./), (/1., 1., 0./)/),   \
           (/(/1., 0., 1./), (/0., 1., 1./)/)    \
        /)
  hls = rgbhls(rgb)
  print (hls)
end

Variable: hls
Type: float
Total Size: 72 bytes
            18 values
Number of Dimensions: 3
Dimensions and sizes:   [3] x [2] x [3]
Coordinates: 
(0,0,0) 120
(0,0,1) 50
(0,0,2) 100
(0,1,0) 240
(0,1,1) 50
(0,1,2) 100
(1,0,0)  0
(1,0,1) 50
(1,0,2) 100
(1,1,0) 180
(1,1,1) 50
(1,1,2) 100
(2,0,0) 60
(2,0,1) 50
(2,0,2) 100
(2,1,0) 300
(2,1,1) 50
(2,1,2) 100