Hi everybody!

For anyone who might be interested in viewing colors before using
them: I have written a color converter - selector - saver for
win9x/NT, which supports the POV color format and lets you paste rgb,
rgbt or rgbf by mouseclick
Take a look at http://www.itsme.de/software/pickcole.html

Bye
Andreas Gerdes

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Andreas Gerdes wrote:
> 
> Hi everybody!
> 
> For anyone who might be interested in viewing colors before using
> them: I have written a color converter - selector - saver for
> win9x/NT, which supports the POV color format and lets you paste rgb,
> rgbt or rgbf by mouseclick
> Take a look at http://www.itsme.de/software/pickcole.html
> 
> Bye
> Andreas Gerdes

This is an excellent utility and thank you for sharing it with us. I really
like the fact that it has named colors and allows for entering HTML hex color
codes. I wish I had this when I was creating my Kolors.inc include file.
It would have saved me a lot of time. In fact this may make my file obsolete.

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Nice tool...thanks most useful
Andreas Gerdes <ger### [at] netcolognede> wrote in message
news:383553e9.3717534@news.povray.org...
> Hi everybody!
>
> For anyone who might be interested in viewing colors before using
> them: I have written a color converter - selector - saver for
> win9x/NT, which supports the POV color format and lets you paste rgb,
> rgbt or rgbf by mouseclick
> Take a look at http://www.itsme.de/software/pickcole.html
>
> Bye
> Andreas Gerdes

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This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.

I do have a question though. I noticed that white is 
rgb <0.99609, 0.99609, 0.99609> why isn't it rgb<1, 1, 1>?

O.K. I also have a feature suggestion(This is for incredibly
lazy people--like me), could you add a checkbox option to attach
pigment{} around the rgb<>? 

The program will be really handy, thanks for sharing it with us.

-- 
Phil
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Phil Clute wrote:

> This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.
>
> I do have a question though. I noticed that white is
> rgb <0.99609, 0.99609, 0.99609> why isn't it rgb<1, 1, 1>?

Because 255 / 255 = 1, whereas 255/256 = 0.99609375

I hate off-by-one errors.

--
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But it was obsolete before I opened the box" - W.A.Y.

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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:49:08 -0500, Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet>
wrote:

>This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.
>
:-)

>I do have a question though. I noticed that white is 
>rgb <0.99609, 0.99609, 0.99609> why isn't it rgb<1, 1, 1>?

To cite Jon A. Cruz
>>"Because 255 / 255 = 1, whereas 255/256 = 0.99609375"

I have to devide by 256, else all other values would get false,
and I do not want to add any extra calculations, because that would
slow down the program - in a most minimal manner but it could be
problematic, though: while scrolling color values, many calculations
are done: I'm always frightened that slower machines could react in a
strange way.

>
>O.K. I also have a feature suggestion(This is for incredibly
>lazy people--like me), could you add a checkbox option to attach
>pigment{} around the rgb<>? 

I did not use POV seriously in the last time, but I do know this kind
of  laziness and added this option to the context menu of the pov
value label

Bye
Andreas

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> This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.
Moi aussi



Martial

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> To cite Jon A. Cruz
> >>"Because 255 / 255 = 1, whereas 255/256 = 0.99609375"

I probably wouldn't use Pick'o'Color for pure white or black anyhow,
I was  just curious, but for all other color selection it'll be
great.

> I did not use POV seriously in the last time, but I do know this kind
> of  laziness and added this option to the context menu of the pov
> value label

That was quick! Thanks. 

-- 
Phil
...coffee?...yes please! extra sugar,extra cream...Thank you.

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Thanks, a brilliant little program I really like the paste facility.

Mick

Andreas Gerdes <ger### [at] netcolognede> wrote in message
news:383553e9.3717534@news.povray.org...
> Hi everybody!
>
> For anyone who might be interested in viewing colors before using
> them: I have written a color converter - selector - saver for
> win9x/NT, which supports the POV color format and lets you paste rgb,
> rgbt or rgbf by mouseclick
> Take a look at http://www.itsme.de/software/pickcole.html
>
> Bye
> Andreas Gerdes

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On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:44:53 GMT, Andreas Gerdes wrote:
>On Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:49:08 -0500, Phil Clute <pcl### [at] tiacnet>
>wrote:
>
>>This little program is so cool I had to put it in my tools menu.
>>
>:-)
>
>>I do have a question though. I noticed that white is 
>>rgb <0.99609, 0.99609, 0.99609> why isn't it rgb<1, 1, 1>?
>
>To cite Jon A. Cruz
>>>"Because 255 / 255 = 1, whereas 255/256 = 0.99609375"
>
>I have to devide by 256, else all other values would get false,

I don't understand this statement.  Do you mean that for example
128 would come out as 128/255=.50196 instead of .5?  That happens
to be correct.  In fact, I'd wager that if you render a scene with
a solid pure-ambient .5 background and no gamma correction, you 
should get pixels with the value 127, because POV will round down.
You should divide by 255, if for no other reason than because POV
multiplies by 255 (assuming you're outputting 8 bits per channel).

-- 
These are my opinions.  I do NOT speak for the POV-Team.
The superpatch: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/superpatch/
My other stuff: http://www2.fwi.com/~parkerr/traces.html

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