distance: Colour distance

In jonclayden/shades: Simple Colour Manipulation

Colour distance

Description

This function calculates a distance measure that aims to quantify the perceptual difference between a vector of colours and a reference colour. The measure in question is the CIE Delta E (2000), which is calculated based on colour coordinates in Lab space.

Usage

distance(shades, reference)

Arguments

shades	One or more colours, in any suitable form (see shade).
reference	A single reference colour.

Value

A numeric vector of distances.

Author(s)

Jon Clayden [e-mail]

References

http://www.brucelindbloom.com/index.html?Eqn_DeltaE_CIE2000.html

Examples

distance(c("red","green","blue"), "red")

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