Updated 2013-11-17 17:34:49 by dkf

[HSV] and [RGB] defines color spaces. [HSV] stands for Hue, Saturation, Value, while [RGB] stands for Red, Green, Blue. This page provides way(s) to convert values between these two color formats.

Googie 11.07.2007 - The code below uses only math package from tcllib, so it's fully portable. It implements routines described on Wikipedia.

KPV These routines appear in several other places in this wiki but it's good to have them in one place (see Harmonic color wheel, Selecting visually different RGB colors, and Image Processing with HSV).

I added hls2rgb from one of the above pages, and I removed the math package requirement (it only used functions min and max, now in 8.5).
 proc rgbToHsv {r g b} {
    set temp  [expr {min($r, $g, $b)}]
    set value [expr {max($r, $g, $b)}]
    set range [expr {$value-$temp}]
    if {$range == 0} {
        set hue 0
    } else {
        if {$value == $r} {
            set top [expr {$g-$b}]
            if {$g >= $b} {
                set angle 0
            } else {
                set angle 360
            }
        } elseif {$value == $g} {
            set top [expr {$b-$r}]
            set angle 120
        } elseif {$value == $b} {
            set top [expr {$r-$g}]
            set angle 240
        }
        set hue [expr { round( double($top) / $range * 60 + $angle ) }]
    }

    if {$value == 0} {
        set saturation 0
    } else {
        set saturation [expr { round( 255 - double($temp) / $value * 255 ) }]
    }
    return [list $hue $saturation $value]
 }

 proc hsvToRgb {h s v} {
    set Hi [expr { int( double($h) / 60 ) % 6 }]
    set f [expr { double($h) / 60 - $Hi }]
    set s [expr { double($s)/255 }]
    set v [expr { double($v)/255 }]
    set p [expr { double($v) * (1 - $s) }]
    set q [expr { double($v) * (1 - $f * $s) }]
    set t [expr { double($v) * (1 - (1 - $f) * $s) }]
    switch -- $Hi {
        0 {
            set r $v
            set g $t
            set b $p
        }
        1 {
            set r $q
            set g $v
            set b $p
        }
        2 {
            set r $p
            set g $v
            set b $t
        }
        3 {
            set r $p
            set g $q
            set b $v
        }
        4 {
            set r $t
            set g $p
            set b $v
        }
        5 {
            set r $v
            set g $p
            set b $q
        }
        default {
            error "Wrong Hi value in hsvToRgb procedure! This should never happen!"
        }
    }
    set r [expr {round($r*255)}]
    set g [expr {round($g*255)}]
    set b [expr {round($b*255)}]
    return [list $r $g $b]
 }


 proc hls2rgb {h l s} {
    # h, l and s are floats between 0.0 and 1.0, ditto for r, g and b
    # h = 0   => red
    # h = 1/3 => green
    # h = 2/3 => blue

    set h6 [expr {($h-floor($h)) * 6}]
    set r [expr {($h6 <= 3) ? (2-$h6) : ($h6-4)}]
    set g [expr {($h6 <= 2) ? ($h6) :
                 ($h6 <= 5) ? (4-$h6) : ($h6-6)}]
    set b [expr {($h6 <= 1) ? (-$h6) :
                 ($h6 <= 4) ? ($h6-2) : (6-$h6)}]
    set r [expr {max(0.0, min(1.0, double($r)))}]
    set g [expr {max(0.0, min(1.0, double($g)))}]
    set b [expr {max(0.0, min(1.0, double($b)))}]

    set r [expr {(($r-1) * $s + 1) * $l}]
    set g [expr {(($g-1) * $s + 1) * $l}]
    set b [expr {(($b-1) * $s + 1) * $l}]
    return [list $r $g $b]
 }

 # Demo
 set r 100
 set g 200
 set b 150
 foreach {h s v} [rgbToHsv $r $g $b] {}
 puts "rgb: $r $g $b -> hsv: $h $s $v"
 puts "back to hsv: [hsvToRgb $h $s $v]"

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