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Lecture 20: Introduction to Color Science (Cont) (65)
knguyen0811

Short snippet about sRGB, HSV, and their uses (wiki):

  1. sRGB is typically used as a color space for images made for viewing on the internet.
  2. HSV and HSL are often used by artists as it is more intuitive to think about a color as one derived from hue and saturation as opposed to additive or subtractive components
afang-story

One thing I like about HSV as opposed to RGB is that hue is formulated as an angle, so this helps when creating color visualizations that are "circular" such as relying on angle

anup-h

What does 100% saturation correspond to? Is the gamut represented by these HSV sliders the same as sRGB? Would it perhaps be simpler to represent wider gamuts in HSV?

afang-story

For the first question not sure what you are trying to make a correspondence to but saturation is like intensity. For the second question, the gamut is different, as not everything in HSV has an RGB correspondence. See this image to see the what is/isn't represented https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hsl-hsv_saturation-lightness_slices.svg

qqqube

A similar color space is HSL, which stands for hue, saturation, and lightness, the main difference between the two being that HSL is symmetrical to lightness and darkness, making it a bit more accurate for color approximations than HSV.

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