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From: Noah Friedman <noah@splode.com>
To: 54514@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54514: incorrect arithmetic in color-lighten-hsl?
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:31:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220321163101.477162.FMU1355@unexploded-cow.prv.splode.com> (raw)

(Any branch or release; this function in color.el looks to be unchanged 
since it was originally introduced)

I might be mistaken, but I think color-lighten-hsl is wrong.  It's
increasing luminance by an absolute percent of 1, not the present
luminance.


Suppose you want to lighten the color "red":

	(color-name-to-rgb "red")
	=> (1.0 0.0 0.0)

	(color-rgb-to-hsl 1.0 0.0 0.0)
	=> (0.0 1.0 0.5)

If you try to lighten this by, say, 50%, currently the result is

	(color-lighten-hsl 0.0 1.0 0.5  50)
	=> (0.0 1.0 1.0)

Which is clearly wrong.  50% lighter red is not white!
The result I would have expected to see is 

	=> (0.0 1.0 0.75)


Currently, the function reads:

	(defun color-lighten-hsl (H S L percent)
	  ...
	  (list H S (color-clamp (+ L (/ percent 100.0)))))

I think it should be:

	(defun color-lighten-hsl (H S L percent)
	  ...
	  (list H S (color-clamp (+ L (* L (/ percent 100.0))))))


Could someone sanity check me?  My color theory background is pretty weak.





             reply	other threads:[~2022-03-21 23:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-21 23:31 Noah Friedman [this message]
2022-03-22 14:28 ` bug#54514: incorrect arithmetic in color-lighten-hsl? Lars Ingebrigtsen

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