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rgb2name

04 Dec 2008

Names a color based on its RGB-triple colorspec. Knows over 400 color names.

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Description	RGB2NAME returns a string containing the name of the input RGB triple. (Or a cell array of strings if an array is input.) This is a "brute force" approach that contains a large list of colors and their names, and uses a very simple nearest neighbor search to find the named color that is closest to the input color. The included list has more than 400 color names, and it performs pretty well. There are a few regions of the color space where it isn't great, particularly with low-saturation colors. This is mostly just for kicks, but I made it for a GUI that needs to ask the user about unnamed hg objects, so instead i can describe them to the user by color. Like "...the graph with the light red and very dark green lines..." There is also a demo included (requires java) that names colors selected by the user in a jcolorchooser.
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.6 (R2008a)
Other requirements	R2007a or later, or requires a bsxfun replacement. Demo requires java to be enabled, but main function does not.
Zip File Content
Other Files	rgb2name.m, rgb2namedemo.m

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Everyone's Tags	cell array, color(2), color name, colormap, colorspec, name, rgb(2)
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Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
rgb	Cristina McIntire	05 Dec 2008 14:47:47
color	Cristina McIntire	05 Dec 2008 14:47:47
cell array	Cristina McIntire	05 Dec 2008 14:47:47
color	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54
rgb	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54
color name	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54
name	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54
colormap	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54
colorspec	matt dash	05 Dec 2008 14:47:54

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