color version 1.6 has been released!
* home: <http://color.rubyforge.org>
* code: <https://github.com/halostatue/color>
* bugs: <https://github.com/halostatue/color/issues>
* rdoc: <http://rubydoc.info/github/halostatue/color>
* continuous integration: <{img src="https://travis-ci.org/halostatue/color.png" /}[https://travis-ci.org/halostatue/color]>
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Color is a Ruby library to provide basic RGB, CMYK, HSL, and other colourspace
manipulation support to applications that require it. It also provides 152
named RGB colours (184 with spelling variations) that are commonly supported in
HTML, SVG, and X11 applications. A technique for generating monochromatic
contrasting palettes is also included.
The Color library performs purely mathematical manipulation of the colours
based on colour theory without reference to colour profiles (such as sRGB or
Adobe RGB). For most purposes, when working with RGB and HSL colour spaces,
this won't matter. Absolute colour spaces (like CIE L*a*b* and XYZ) and cannot
be reliably converted to relative colour spaces (like RGB) without colour
profiles.
Color version 1.6 primarily adds a colour matching method for RGB and
experimental CIE L*a*b* and XYZ conversion methods for use with the colour
matching method.
Barring bugs introduced in this release, this is the last version of color that
supports Ruby 1.8, so make sure that your gem specification is set properly (to
<tt>~> 1.6</tt>) if that matters for your application.
Changes:
## 1.6 / 2014-05-19
* Major enhancements:
* Aaron Hill (@armahillo) implemented the CIE Delta E 94 method by which an
RGB colour can be asked for the closest matching colour from a list of
provided colours. Fixes #5.
* To implement #closest_match and #delta_e94, conversion methods for sRGB to
XYZ and XYZ to L*a*b* space were implemented. These should be considered
experimental.
* Tooling fixes:
* Ensured that the gem manifest was up-to-date. Fixes #4 reported by @boutil.
Thanks!
* Fixed problems with Travis builds. Note that Ruby 1.9.2 is no longer
tested. Rubinius remains in a “failure-tolerated” mode.
* Color 1.6 is, barring security patches, the last release of Color that will
support Ruby 1.8.