HSL and HSV - Further Reading

Further Reading

• Max K. Agoston (2005). Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling: Implementation and Algorithms. London: Springer. ISBN 1-85233-818-0. pp. 300–306. Agoston’s book contains a description of HSV and HSL, and algorithms in pseudocode for converting to each from RGB, and back again.
• Heng-Da Cheng, Xihua Jiang, Angela Sun, and Jingli Wang (December 2001). "Color Image Segmentation: Advances and Prospects". Pattern Recognition 34(12): 2259–2281. This computer vision literature review briefly summarizes research in color image segmentation, including that using HSV and HSI representations.
• Mark D. Fairchild (2005). Color Appearance Models, 2nd edition. Addison-Wesley. This book doesn’t discuss HSL or HSV specifically, but is one of the most readable and precise resources about current color science.
• James D. Foley, et al. (1995). Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice, 2nd ed. Redwood City, CA: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-84840-6. The standard computer graphics textbook of the 1990s, this tome has a chapter full of algorithms for converting between color models, in C.
• George H. Joblove and Donald Greenberg (August 1978). "Color spaces for computer graphics". Computer Graphics 12(3): 20–25. Joblove and Greenberg’s paper was the first describing the HSL model, which it compares to HSV.
• Rolf G. Kuehni (2003). Color Space and Its Divisions: Color Order from Antiquity to the present. New York: Wiley. This book only briefly mentions HSL and HSV, but is a comprehensive description of color order systems through history.
• Haim Levkowitz and Gabor T. Herman (July 1993). "GLHS: A generalised lightness, hue and saturation color model". CVGIP: Graphical Models and Image Processing 55(4): 271–285. This paper explains how both HSL and HSV, as well as other similar models, can be thought of as specific variants of a more general "GLHS" model. Levkowitz and Herman provide pseudocode for converting from RGB to GLHS and back.
• Bruce MacEvoy (January 2010). Color Vision. handprint.com. Accessed January 2010. Especially the sections about "Modern Color Models" and "Modern Color Theory". MacEvoy’s extensive site about color science and paint mixing is one of the best resources on the web. On this page, he explains the color-making attributes, and the general goals and history of color order systems – including HSL and HSV – and their practical relevance to painters.
• Charles Poynton (1997). Frequently Asked Questions About Color. This self-published frequently asked questions page, by digital video expert Charles Poynton, explains, among other things, why in his opinion these models "are useless for the specification of accurate color", and should be abandoned in favor of more psychometrically relevant models.
• Alvy Ray Smith (August 1978). "Color gamut transform pairs". Computer Graphics 12(3): 12–19. This is the original paper describing the "hexcone" model, HSV. Smith was a researcher at NYIT’s Computer Graphics Lab. He describes HSV’s use in an early digital painting program.
• Anne Morgan Spalter (1999). The Computer in the Visual Arts. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. This hefty book has a nice section describing HSL and HSV.