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- From: hewitt@usafa.af.mil (W. Joe Hewitt)
- Subject: Color Sample to RGB Conversion
- Message-ID: <hewitt.721337021@usafa.af.mil>
- Keywords: color conversion
- Sender: news@usafa.af.mil
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- Organization: United States Air Force Academy
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 19:23:41 GMT
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- I am looking for a way to generate a color on a workstation that closely
- matches a given sample from a color plate.
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- I have tried scanning the image (24 bit scanner) with little success.
- The scanning software only gives percentages of the R,G, & B components.
- Using a little math I converted each percentage to a value in the range
- 0..255 (24 bit color system) for each RGB component. The problem is that
- the new color doesn't look very much like the original sample. I know
- that the monitor can be adjusted to do minor compenstaion, but it still
- doesn't get close enough to the original sample.
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- Is there a better way to accurately reproduce a color sample on a 24 bit
- workstation? Is there something I have missed in the conversion?
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- Please E-mail any responses directly to me since my news feed is several
- days behind.
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- Thanks for your help.
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- Cheers!
-
- --Joe
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- W. Joe Hewitt, Capt, USAF hewitt@usafa.af.mil
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