[MacRuby-devel] sorting colors (MacRuby Graphics)

Ryan Davis ryand-ruby at zenspider.com
Wed Jul 28 15:20:53 PDT 2010


On Jul 15, 2010, at 23:10 , Matt Aimonetti wrote:

> I wrote a new sample for MacRuby Graphics that samples the colors from a jpg and display them. 
> I was trying to find a good way to sort the colors in a way that makes total sense (sort by color family and by brightness). Unfortunately, this isn't an easy thing to do, here is the result:
> 
> http://img.skitch.com/20100716-nth8dcm4ag12bcns1fgngt4ird.png
> Source code: http://github.com/mattetti/macruby_graphics/blob/master/examples/color_sampler_example.rb
> 
> I'd be curious to know if one of you knows a better way to do that?

IIRC, you usually convert from rgp to hsv and sort on [h, s, v] or [h, v, s]. I can't tell from your code sample what the sort is doing.


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