- gimp_rgb_list_names() ported as gimp_color_list_names() using NUL-terminated
GimpColorArray.
- GimpColorHexEntry uses the new function (and is therefore now GimpRGB free!).
- gimp_rgb_parse_name() deleted as it's unused since my previous commit.
With all this, gimprgb-parse.c is now deleted from the repository! \o/
This is meant to obsolete GeglParamColor with at least an additional argument
has_alpha which we need in GIMP. It allows to advertize when a parameter wants
an opaque color, which in particular means we know when displaying a GUI to pick
colors with alpha or not.
With "HSVA" and a few others, the function was not returning the right value (it
could not see it was encoding alpha channel.
I had fixed it on babl directly with commit a28309c yet I had forgotten to push
it! Let's just add some #ifdef and a comment.
This is used for the gimp_color_is_perceptually_identical() function,
because the Euclidean distance in LCH is extremely limited, if not wrong
in many cases. Indeed LCH is not perfectly perceptually uniform, and for
this exact reason, the CIE defined the specific Delta E algorithms.
Later versions are also based on LCH values, so my intuition to use it
for distance was on a good start, yet these algorithms were refined a
few times to allow for corrections in perceptual uniformity
imperfections.
This was in particular needed to verify if a color is out of a CMYK
space gamut. The idea is to compare the distance of the RGB (or other)
and the CMYK version, since we cannot just check if the CMYK color is
out of the [0; 1] range (it never is). Instead if both colors are
perceptually identical, then we consider that the RGB color was inside
the CMYK space gamut.
The naive algorithm was giving any (or nearly) color as out-of-gamut.
Now using CIEDE2000, I get a much nicer results.
I still see some limitations in GimpGradient, and in particular, they are still
always stored as RGB in GGR files. It would be nice if we could store the actual
color format. This way, if someone chooses a gradient stop as Lab or CMYK color,
that's what the gradient file would keep track of. But also even storing the
space of a color (instead of storing/loading always in sRGB, even though this
may still work fine as we store unbounded double values). This might warrant for
a v2 of GGR file format.
This commit also fixes loading of SVG gradient which was apparently broken
regarding hexadecimal color parsing.
Finally I improve gegl_color_set_alpha() by adding an alpha channel when the
initial format had none.
This fixes weird behavior when changing only the alpha value of a color, e.g. in
the channel color GUI. The before and after colors were considered the same. Now
they won't.
… gimp_color_is_perceptually_identical().
gimp_color_is_perceptually_identical() is meant to replace gimp_rgb_distance()
which is anyway always used to decide whether 2 colors can be considered equal.
So rather than having a distance algorithm which we won't be able to change
later on (if people start relying on specific values), let's just give the
answer directly on what's a same color (perceptually) or not.
Also now the distance is computed through the intermediate color space LCh which
seems to be one of the most perceptually uniform space, therefore a good choice
for such an algorithm (comparing distances on a non-perceptual uniform space
doesn't make very much sense, since a same distance may be perceived differently
in different subspaces).
Alx Sa