The
Colour Harmoniser
It's really difficult to
concoct good colour schemes,
particularly if the components of
the resulting image need to be
clearly distinguishable.
Designers
in many industries need an easy
way to identify harmonious sets
of colours, without learning a
whole lot of formal colour
theory. The great colour expert,
Albert Munsell, invented a
mathematical technique for the
job in the early 1900s, but it's
so tedious to apply by hand that
no-one ever uses it. Now,
however, computers are powerful,
cheap, and colour-capable, and it
seems feasible to apply Munsell's
technique in earnest.
In
these Web pages, we describe a
long-term collaborative research
project to develop a
computer-based colour selection
system - a Colour Harmoniser -
loosely based on Munsell's ideas.
The project will involve staff
from Massey University's Human
Computer Interaction Research
Group, other University
departments, and colour
specialists from industry.
Publications
Colour Group Selection for Computer Interfaces
Lyons, P., G. Moretti, and M. Wilson.
Colour Group Selection for Computer Interfaces.
in Human Vision and Electronic Imaging V.
2000, ed. B.E. Rogowitz and T.N. Pappas. Vol.
3959. San Jose, USA: SPIE - The International
Society for Optical Engineering. 302-313.
Moretti, G., P. Lyons.
Tools for the Selection of Colour Palettes, in
Proc New Zealand Symposium On
Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI 2002),
University of Waikato, New Zealand, July 11-12,
2002.
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