Re: [Skim-app-users] Two-column issues

[Patrik J. <pat...@fa...>]

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stuart Andrews <stu...@gm...> wrote:
> On Jun 7, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Patrik Jonsson wrote:
>
>> I monitored this discussion with some interest. It seems to me that if
>> we're going to talk about fringe features, sorting based on color
>> would be up there. There's not even a well-defined sorting order since
>> it's a multidimensional space... ;-)
>
> There clearly is a well-defined order (i.e. based on 8-bit HSBA
> components), however there is no 1-dimensional ordering of colors that
> matches our natural perception of colorspace.

The problem is that there are *more* than one well-defined order,
which makes it not well-defined... Why HSBA and not RGBA? Or CMYK? Or
any arbitrary redefinition of these?

cheers,

/Patrik