HSV and RGB defines color spaces. HSV stands for Hue, Saturation, Value, while RGB stands for Red, Green, Blue. This page provides way(s) to convert values between these two color formats.
Googie 11.07.2007 - The code below uses only math package from tcllib, so it's fully portable. It implements routines described on Wikipedia [L1 ].
package require math
KPV These routines appear in several other places in this wiki. A quick search turns up Harmonic color wheel, Selecting visually different RGB colors, and Image Processing with HSV. Perhaps there should be a color module in tklib.
proc rgbToHsv {r g b} { set temp [math::min $r $g $b] set v [math::max $r $g $b] set value $v set bottom [expr {$v-$temp}] if {$bottom == 0} { set hue 0 set saturation 0 set value $v } else { if {$v == $r} { set top [expr {$g-$b}] if {$g >= $b} { set angle 0 } else { set angle 360 } } elseif {$v == $g} { set top [expr {$b-$r}] set angle 120 } elseif {$v == $b} { set top [expr {$r-$g}] set angle 240 } set hue [expr { round( 60 * ( double($top) / $bottom ) + $angle ) }] } if {$v == 0} { set saturation 0 } else { set saturation [expr { round( 255 - 255 * ( double($temp) / $v ) ) }] } return [list $hue $saturation $value] } proc hsvToRgb {h s v} { set Hi [expr { int( double($h) / 60 ) % 6 }] set f [expr { double($h) / 60 - $Hi }] set s [expr { double($s)/255 }] set v [expr { double($v)/255 }] set p [expr { double($v) * (1 - $s) }] set q [expr { double($v) * (1 - $f * $s) }] set t [expr { double($v) * (1 - (1 - $f) * $s) }] switch -- $Hi { 0 { set r $v set g $t set b $p } 1 { set r $q set g $v set b $p } 2 { set r $p set g $v set b $t } 3 { set r $p set g $q set b $v } 4 { set r $t set g $p set b $v } 5 { set r $v set g $p set b $q } default { error "Wrong Hi value in hsvToRgb procedure! This should never happen!" } } set r [expr {round($r*255)}] set g [expr {round($g*255)}] set b [expr {round($b*255)}] return [list $r $g $b] } # Demo set r 100 set g 200 set b 150 foreach {h s v} [rgbToHsv $r $g $b] {} puts "rgb: $r $g $b -> hsv: $h $s $v" puts "back to hsv: [hsvToRgb $h $s $v]"