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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion scales-colour.qmd
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Expand Up @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Fortunately for us the human eye only has three different colour receptors, and
You may be familiar with the RGB encoding of colour space, which defines a colour by the intensities of red, green and blue light needed to produce it.
One problem with this space is that it is not perceptually uniform: the two colours that are one unit apart may look similar or very different depending on where they are in the colour space.
This makes it difficult to create a mapping from a continuous variable to a set of colours.
There have been many attempts to come up with colours spaces that are more perceptually uniform.
There have been many attempts to come up with colour spaces that are more perceptually uniform.
We'll use a modern attempt called the HCL colour space, which has three components of **h**ue, **c**hroma and **l**uminance: \index{Colour!spaces}

- **Hue** ranges from 0 to 360 (an angle) and gives the "colour" of the colour (blue, red, orange, etc).
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