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ue Saturation & Luminance

Hue is best seen as a colour wheel with red at 0 and 240, though the wheel only goes to 239. Thus theprimary colours Red, Green and Blue are all 80 apart, and the secondary colours, Yellow, Cyan and

Magenta spaced in between them. This gives us six easy to remember points of reference. From this if yousay "Gold", I think hue 30. If you say "Orange" I think hue 20. Skin tones tend to be around a value of 10,

though they do vary depending upon complexion.

If I have ten objects or ten lights and I want to cover the spectrum with each colour an equal distance fromthose on each side, I use a series based on steps of 24. (240/10=24) This works very well with lights, adding up

to white light wherever the distances are equal. It also guarantees that the no colour will predominate. Thisworks for any number of lights or objects less than 120 in total.

Click to see relatedpractical examples of how this works in Shade.

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This illustrates the effect of saturation. At 239, colours are as saturated as possible - and a zero, they areall neutral grey.

LUMINANCE





Luminance is the lightness or brightness of a chosen colour. Pure black at zero, no matter what hue or saturationis set, and white at 239.

Hue, saturation and luminance is a very good way to approach colour. Onunderstood, exactly the desired colour and shade can be quickly found anfine tuned through Shade's Surface palette and colour picker.

The basic colour of any object is set with Diffuse and the amount can bevaried either by typing a number between 0 and 1.0 or moving the slider watching the example. Clicking on the rectangle to the right of any slider bring up the colour picker shown at the top of this page. The effect ispreviewed on the sphere in hte preview window.

While the example at left is somewhat absurd, it does illustrate how compcolouring a surface can be, The Surface palette is an extremely powerfulfeature in Shade.





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