I am new to POV-Ray and i know there are a lot of colors but where in the help
section can you see all of them?

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"Fred" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I am new to POV-Ray and i know there are a lot of colors but where in the help
> section can you see all of them?

You can use any color that is a combination of <red, green, blue> in the rgb
system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model#/media/File:RGB_color_solid_cube.png

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color_model

You can sort of see the whole gamut of fully saturated colors by looking at the
"RGB cube" straight-on at a corner

https://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/thread/%3C5b1090f9%241%40news.povray.org%3E/

You might try experimenting with different ways of visualizing this yourself as
an introductory experiment.

And lastly:  Welcome!

- Bill "Bald Eagle" Walker

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On 3/19/25 17:25, Fred wrote:
> I am new to POV-Ray and i know there are a lot of colors but where in the help
> section can you see all of them?
> 

tth@linda:~$ find /usr/share/povray-3.7/ -name colors.inc
/usr/share/povray-3.7/include/colors.inc
tth@linda:~$

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hi,

"Fred" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I am new to POV-Ray and i know there are a lot of colors but where in the help

and hello.


> section can you see all of them?

there's no ready-to-use table in the docs.  to add to the previous replies, if
you're a Linux user, I wrote a couple of scripts, to convert the X Windows
colour database to a POV-Ray include, and to create a simple HTML page to view
the common to X and POV-Ray colours.
<https://news.povray.org/povray.unix/attachment/%3C57c71868%241%40news.povray.org%3E/ccharts.tar>


regards, jr.

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"jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> there's no ready-to-use table in the docs.

No, but others have made renders.

https://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_150e.htm
https://www.buckosoft.com/~dick/pov/colors.php

And IIRC, others have compiled some very LARGE files of "named" colors.
It would probably be easy enough to parse that as an include file and render a
few million dots - given Paul Bourke's recent data set.

However, I think that given how subjective color perception is - so dependent on
lighting, context, etc. - that it's best to just get a close-enough color to
start with and then tweak it after the rest of the scene is finalized.
Otherwise you're chasing color ghosts.

- BW

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Le 2025-03-19 à 12:25, Fred a écrit :
> I am new to POV-Ray and i know there are a lot of colors but where in the help
> section can you see all of them?
> 

You can get a starting collection from colors.inc

To use it, you add :
#include colors.inc
near the start of your scene, often just after the #version statement.

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hi,

"Bald Eagle" <cre### [at] netscapenet> wrote:
> "jr" <cre### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
>
> > there's no ready-to-use table in the docs.
>
> No, but others have made renders.

good reminders, both.


> And IIRC, others have compiled some very LARGE files of "named" colors.

'farger.inc' by SE Andersen.  (still keep it round :-))


> It would probably be easy enough to parse that as an include file and render a
> few million dots - given Paul Bourke's recent data set.
>
> However, I think that given how subjective color perception is - so dependent on
> lighting, context, etc. - that it's best to just get a close-enough color to
> start with and then tweak it after the rest of the scene is finalized.
> Otherwise you're chasing color ghosts.

yes, perception is dependent on both external and internal factors. thinking
that some kind of "standard spec" could be agreed on, a texture, its properties,
plus lighting. then "colouring" that set texture would "distort" all colours
equally.


regards, jr.

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On 19/03/2025 18:54, Bald Eagle wrote:

> No, but others have made renders.
> 
> https://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/tex/tex_150e.htm
> https://www.buckosoft.com/~dick/pov/colors.php
> 

also here :
<http://louisbel.free.fr/portfolio/colors.shtml>



-- 
kurtz le pirate
compagnie de la banquise

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On 19.03.2025 20:54, Bald Eagle wrote:

> However, I think that given how subjective color perception is - so dependent on
> lighting, context, etc.

I think that, given how subjective etc. is, practically any pre-render 
of a color on a different object with different finish under different 
light is next to useless, unless you have some hidden superpower to 
predict all this etc. thing. Unfortunately, this particular superpower 
is missing from my vast personal superpowers list, so I have to resort 
to banal trial and error.

-- 
Ilyich the Toad
https://dnyarri.github.io/

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