number of colornames?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Frankly Wayne,

I don't see any more than 552 colors, unless there are more after  
yellowgreen. Isn't that enough for you?

Joe Wilkins

On Feb 11, 2007, at 2:11 PM, wayne durden wrote:

> Hi Mark & Joe:
>
> I don't want to beat a dead horse or belabor a point, but:
>
> the number of lines of colornames() returns 552
>
> however as I iterate through the lines using something like
>
> line i of colornames()
>
> by the time I am at 552 I am nowhere near the end...
>
> I realize what is probably going on is that there are often 4 or so
> variations on a single name like firebrick, firebrick1, etc.
>
> What is confusing is why the "number of lines" and "line i of"  
> aren't in
> agreement.  And assuming I do want to get all of the variations,  
> how should
> I set up the loop other than "repeat with i=1 to the number of  
> lines of
> colornames()"?
>
> thanks again
> Wayne
>
> On 2/11/07, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>>
>> Wayne,
>>
>> Not every colour has a name. There are (apparently) 552 named colours
>> and many more unnamed colours, assuming that there are approximately
>> 255^3 different colours. The colorNames function returns all of the
>> 552 named colours.
>>
>> There used to be a PANTONE colours library stack in the user
>> contributions collection on the Revolution site, which could be
>> interesting for you, but this collection is no longer available.
>> Maybe someone still has that stack and is willing to make it  
>> available?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mark
>>
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>> Op 11-feb-2007, om 21:44 heeft wayne durden het volgende geschreven:
>>
>> > Hi Joe:
>> >
>> > I actually discovered that fact too by adding additional numbers to
>> > my loop
>> > (actually 15 more cds with 100 colors each til the end).  But the
>> > problem is
>> > why does the number of lines of colornames() yield fewer?  The
>> > number of
>> > lines of colornames yields 552, but there look to be about 2000'ish
>> > colornames?
>> >
>> > My suspicion is that this is related to associative array with same
>> > name
>> > issues but not sure.  More importantly how ahead of time would I
>> > structure
>> > the loop to take me to the end?  Perhaps a while not "" I guess?
>> > Thanks
>> > Joe!
>> >
>> > wayne
>>
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