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R: Create polarLUV Colors

polarLUV

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Create polarLUV Colors

Description

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

Usage

polarLUV(L, C, H, names)

Arguments

`L,C,H`	these arguments give the L, C and H coordinates of the colors. The values can be provided in separate `L`, `C` and `H` vectors or in a three-column matrix passed as `L`.
`names`	A vector of names for the colors (by default the row names of `L` are used).

Details

The polarLUV space is a transformation of the CIE L*u*u* space so that the u and u values are converted to polar coordinates. The radial component C measures chroma and the angular coordinate H is measures hue.

Value

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

Author(s)

Ross Ihaka

Examples

## Show the polarLUV space
set.seed(1)
x <- RGB(runif(1000), runif(1000), runif(1000))
y <- as(x, "polarLUV")
head(x)
head(y)
plot(y)