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rspeer on Oct 1, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Using imagemagick, awk and kmeans to find dominant...

The main problems with HSV (HSB):

- It thinks #00ff00 (full-intensity green) and #0000ff (full-intensity blue) are the same brightness, when the green will be much, much brighter than the blue to human eyes

- A large portion of the hue space is dedicated to nearly-indistinguishable green

wingerlang on Oct 1, 2015 [–]

I see. But as a user that just needs to visually pick colors, I think it is the best one I can use.

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