HSV Color Disc
Posted: 04 Sep 2015, 15:00
Dear TVPaint team,
I would desperately like to see this type of wheel implemented in TVP:
(the picker above is from the open-source software MyPaint, and is also found in another open-source application, Krita.)
While TVP 11 now has the chromatic wheel, there is a great advantage to the color disc type of picker. With this type of picker, it is possible to visualize the gamut or colorspace that is encapsulated within a certain area of the color wheel:
The colors inside that triangle are harmonious and related to each other in the gamut. No matter what the lightness slider does, all the colors in that area will still be in the scheme.
In a traditional painter's wheel, complementary colors are across from each other on the circumference of the disc, with the neutrals in the center as intermediate colors between them:
With the TVP color picker box, it's possible to see the intermediate neutral colors, but they are flattened and distorted into a square (sort of like the way the globe of the Earth becomes distorted when flattened into a square map):
I would desperately like to see this type of wheel implemented in TVP:
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While TVP 11 now has the chromatic wheel, there is a great advantage to the color disc type of picker. With this type of picker, it is possible to visualize the gamut or colorspace that is encapsulated within a certain area of the color wheel:
- hsv-wheel0.png (110.97 KiB) Viewed 10321 times
In a traditional painter's wheel, complementary colors are across from each other on the circumference of the disc, with the neutrals in the center as intermediate colors between them:
- hsv-wheel1.png (169.98 KiB) Viewed 10321 times
- hsv-wheel2.png (60.25 KiB) Viewed 10321 times