1Convert::Color::HSL(3)User Contributed Perl DocumentationConvert::Color::HSL(3)
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NAME

6       "Convert::Color::HSL" - a color value represented as
7       hue/saturation/lightness
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SYNOPSIS

10       Directly:
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12        use Convert::Color::HSL;
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14        my $red = Convert::Color::HSL->new( 0, 1, 0.5 );
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16        # Can also parse strings
17        my $pink = Convert::Color::HSL->new( '0,1,0.8' );
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19       Via Convert::Color:
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21        use Convert::Color;
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23        my $cyan = Convert::Color->new( 'hsl:300,1,0.5' );
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DESCRIPTION

26       Objects in this class represent a color in HSL space, as a set of three
27       floating-point values. Hue is stored as a value in degrees, in the
28       range 0 to 360 (exclusive). Saturation and lightness are in the range 0
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31       This color space may be considered as a cylinder, of height and radius
32       1. Hue represents the position of the color as the angle around the
33       axis, the saturation as the distance from the axis, and the lightness
34       the height above the base. In this shape, the entire base of the
35       cylinder is pure black, the axis through the centre represents the
36       range of greys, and the entire top of the cylinder is pure white. The
37       circumference of the circular cross-section midway along the axis
38       contains the pure-saturated color wheel.
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40       Because both surfaces of this cylinder contain pure black or white
41       discs, a closely-related color space can be created by reshaping the
42       cylinder into a bi-cone such that the top and bottom of the cylinder
43       become single points. The radius from the axis of this shape is called
44       the chroma (though this is a different definition of "chroma" than that
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47       While the components of this space are called Hue-Chroma-Lightness, it
48       should not be confused with the similarly-named Hue-Chroma-Luminance
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CONSTRUCTOR

52   $color = Convert::Color::HSL->new( $hue, $saturation, $lightness )
53       Returns a new object to represent the set of values given. The hue
54       should be in the range 0 to 360 (exclusive), and saturation and
55       lightness should be between 0 and 1. Values outside of these ranges
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58   $color = Convert::Color::HSL->new( $string )
59       Parses $string for values, and construct a new object similar to the
60       above three-argument form. The string should be in the form
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64       containing the three floating-point values in decimal notation.
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METHODS

67   $h = $color->hue
68   $s = $color->saturation
69   $v = $color->lightness
70       Accessors for the three components of the color.
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72   $c = $color->chroma
73       Returns the derived property of "chroma", which maps the color space
74       onto a bicone instead of a cylinder. This more closely measures the
75       intuitive concept of how "colorful" the color is than the saturation
76       value and is useful for distance calculations.
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78   ( $hue, $saturation, $lightness ) = $color->hsl
79       Returns the individual hue, saturation and lightness components of the
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82   $measure = $color->dst_hsl( $other )
83       Returns a measure of the distance between the two colors. This is the
84       Euclidean distance between the two colors as points in the chroma-
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87   $measure = $color->dst_hsl_cheap( $other )
88       Returns a measure of the distance between the two colors. This is used
89       in the calculation of "dst_hsl" but since it omits the final square-
90       root and scaling it is cheaper to calculate, for use in cases where
91       only the relative values matter, such as when picking the "best match"
92       out of a set of colors. It ranges between 0 for identical colors and 4
93       for the distance between complementary pure-saturated colors.
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SEE ALSO

96       ·   Convert::Color - color space conversions
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98       ·   Convert::Color::RGB - a color value represented as red/green/blue
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100       ·   <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV> - HSL and HSV on
101           Wikipedia
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AUTHOR

104       Paul Evans <leonerd@leonerd.org.uk>
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