HLS {colorspace}R Documentation

Create HLS Colors

Description

This function creates colors of class HLS; a subclass of the virtual “color” class.

Usage

HLS(H, L, S, names)

Arguments

H,L,S

These arguments give the hue, lightness, and saturation of the colors. The values can be provided in separate H, L and S vectors or in a three-column matrix passed as H.

names

A vector of names for the colors (by default the row names of H are used).

Details

This function creates colors in the HLS color space which corresponds to the standard sRGB color space (IEC standard 61966). The hues should lie between between 0 and 360, and the lightness and saturations should lie between 0 and 1.

Value

An object of class “HLS” which inherits from class “color.”

Author(s)

Ross Ihaka

References

www.srgb.com

See Also

RGB, XYZ, LAB, polarLAB, LUV, polarLUV.

Examples

# A rainbow of full-intensity hues
hls = HLS(seq(0, 360, length=13)[-13], 0.5, 1)

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