Plugin Concept: Complementary Colors

[BoltBait]

I was playing with the Complementary Colors Calculator at https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

 

I made a plugin to simulate the algorithm...

 

Not an official release yet as I may need to tweak the algorithm I wrote.  I could not find a good source for the code, so I cobbled together something that kinda works.

 

Here's how it looks:  (It lives in the Effects > Fill menu.)

 

 

It fills your selection with the selected color.  Use it to build a palette for your design project.

 

The help file (?) contains more information.

 

And, here's the download:

 

complement.zip

 

Enjoy.

 

[Pixey]

This could be very useful indeed when painting   Many thanks @BoltBait 🍺

[xod]

Thank you BB.
There is a plugin called Color Harmonies.
Is it different from what you offer us?

 

 

[BoltBait]

2 hours ago, xod said:

There is a plugin called Color Harmonies.
Is it different from what you offer us?

 

Honestly, I have no idea. I never downloaded that plugin.

 

But, I'll take a guess and say that it is probably using the RGB colorwheel instead of the RYB colorwheel I'm using.

 

[Reptillian]

http://nishitalab.org/user/UEI/publication/Sugita_SIG2015.pdf

 

Would the above be of any help? Just found it when searching for an answer to color space.

[BoltBait]

Thanks, but converting between the two color spaces was not necessary.  And, I had actually found code for that anyway. 

 

https://github.com/sanjayatpilcrow/SharpSnippets/blob/master/POCs/POCs/Sanjay/SharpSnippets/Drawing/ColorExtensions.cs

 

What I found difficult was measuring distances around the RYB colorwheel since the hue between each color is a different distance. This can be seen in the colorwheel shown in the help file (if you calculate the distances between each color).

 

I ended up just hard coding a 360 byte array.  

 

Here is what I used for RYB 

P            S           P              S               P            S            P          (P=Primary, S=Secondary)

Compare that to RGB 

 

The colors are in the same order, just some areas are stretched and some are compressed in the RYB model.  In the RGB model, all hue's are equally spaced.

 

(I had to write a CodeLab script to create that RYB image.  BTW, it doesn't matter that the green is dark, I'm only looking at the Hue.)

 

[Seerose]

 Sir @BoltBait!

 

 I really appreciate this and all your hard work. Thank you for sharing this with us!  
 

[Reptillian]

From what I found, the RYB bar doesn't seem very accurate. Here's what I got with my own g'mic command, looks more like the reference you posted in the original link. This is more based on painting, and the only downfall is the blue is terrible.

 

 

EDIT: Never mind. Just making this more saturated alone the desaturation issue.

 

 

Edited March 25, 2019 by Reptillian