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29 Apr 2024 01:07:36 EDT (-0400)
  Re: xkcd colors  
From: robotguy
Date: 19 Jul 2010 04:35:01
Message: <web.4c440db43ccde340926a7e230@news.povray.org>
"waggy" <hon### [at] handbasketorg> wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
> > You counted them?
> >
> > Weird or what? ;-)
>
> I could claim a legitimate use for modeling wastewater treatment systems...
>
> > Red, green or blue is good enough for me. :-)
>
> Ah, but there is power in naming things.
>
> The original author converted all spaces, slashes, and apostrophes
> to underscores, resulting in some name duplications and redeclared variables.
> Instead, the attached file changed slash characters to _SLASH_,
> apostrophes to _APOS_, and only spaces to underscores.
>
> I also combined macros by Clipka and Peter Santo to declare all the colors from
> the original file with a picked-color gamma correction.  You may declare
> xkcd_picked_gamma before including the attached file to override the default of
> 2.2.
>
> ~waggy

I'm not surprised I missed a few; the original file wasn't exactly harmonious
with the spreadsheet software (OpenOffice.org) and if I had any hair I would've
torn some out.  After a while I just didn't care if robins egg blue and robin's
egg blue were different colors.

Ed


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