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Figure 3.24: Several different color spaces.<br />

red, green, blue <strong>and</strong> their combinati<strong>on</strong>s: yellow (from red <strong>and</strong> green), cyan (green<br />

<strong>and</strong> blue), magenta (blue <strong>and</strong> red). The HSL (hue, saturati<strong>on</strong>, lightness) double<br />

hexic<strong>on</strong>e is shown in Figure 3.24(c). Its difference from the previous space is that<br />

the level of maximum saturati<strong>on</strong> is at L =0.5, instead of L =1.0. The HSL<br />

double c<strong>on</strong>e (d) is similar to the HSL double hexic<strong>on</strong>e, except the cross secti<strong>on</strong> is<br />

circular, rather than hexag<strong>on</strong>al. The HSL cylinder (e) is like the HSL c<strong>on</strong>e (d),<br />

except that the complete radius is available at all points al<strong>on</strong>g the L axis.<br />

While the previous color spaces provide an intuitive interpretati<strong>on</strong> of the axes,<br />

an ideal color space would be perceptually linear. In such a color space, the per-<br />

ceptual difference between any two colors is represented by the distance between<br />

them. These spaces are useful when <strong>on</strong>ly a finite number of colors can be repre-<br />

sented <strong>and</strong> wish to cover the entire gamut in the most effective way. To maximize<br />

the use of a space, we would like equal increments to result in color steps that were<br />

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