The following functions create colors. These functions produce objects that have equivalent effects and are indistinguishable when drawn; the only difference is in how the color components are specified. Whether these functions use the specified values exactly or approximate them because of limited color resolution is unspecified. Whether these functions create a new object or return an existing object with equivalent color component values is also unspecified.
make-rgb-color [Function]
Summary: Returns a member of the class color . The red , green , and blue arguments are real numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive) that specify the values of the corresponding color components.
make-ihs-color [Function]
Arguments: intensity hue saturation
Summary: Returns a member of class
color
. The
intensity
argument is a real number between 0 and 
(inclusive). The
hue
and
saturation
arguments are real numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive).
make-gray-color [Function]
Summary: Returns a member of class color . luminance is a real number between 0 and 1 (inclusive). On a black-on-white display device, 0 means black, 1 means white, and the other values are shades of gray. On a white-on-black display device, 0 means white, 1 means black, and the other values are shades of gray.
make-contrasting-inks [Function]
Summary: If k is not supplied, this returns a vector of n designs with recognizably different appearance. Elements of the vector are guaranteed to be acceptable values for the :ink argument to the drawing functions, and will not include +foreground-ink+ , +background-ink+ , or nil . Their class is otherwise unspecified. The vector is a fresh object that may be modified.
If k is supplied, it must be an integer between 0 and n - 1 (inclusive), in which case make-contrasting-inks returns the k th design rather than returning a vector of designs.
CLIM supports at least 8 different contrasting inks. If n is greater than the number of contrasting inks, make-contrasting-inks signals an error.
The rendering of the design may be a color or a stippled pattern, depending on whether the output medium supports color.
contrasting-inks-limit [Generic Function]
Summary: Returns the number of contrasting colors (or stipple patterns if port is monochrome or grayscale) that can be rendered on any medium on the port port . All classes that obey the medium protocol implement a method for this generic function.
The following two functions comprise the color protocol. Both of them return the components of a color. All subclasses of color implement methods for these generic functions.
Summary: Returns three values, the red , green , and blue components of the color color . The values are real numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive).
Summary: Returns three values, the
intensity
,
hue
, and
saturation
components of the color
color
. The first value is a real number between 0 and 
(inclusive). The second and third values are real numbers between 0 and 1 (inclusive).