POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : color mixing tool : Re: color mixing tool Server Time
30 Jul 2024 02:27:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: color mixing tool  
From: Jaime Vives Piqueres
Date: 26 Nov 2009 14:46:56
Message: <4b0edb30@news.povray.org>

> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anybody could help me to a color mixing tool? I've
> found enough color pickers with all kind of options, but non with the
> same options you have in real life. When I have a certain color I often
> just want to add a hint of an other color, as I do with painting, but can
> find it quite hard to get the right touch with the numbers.

   I usually do this just with simple arithmetic operations and predefined
colors from colors.inc:

   #declare my_color=Red*.5+Blue*.2+White*.1;

   As you say, it's much easier to work with proportions in a mix of colors,
like in a painting palette.


-- 
Jaime Vives Piqueres

http://www.ignorancia.org


Post a reply to this message

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.