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- From: bkph@kauai.ai.mit.edu (Berthold K.P. Horn)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Subject: Re: (HELP) How does one create a gold tone in PostScript?
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- Date: 28 Dec 92 12:21:43 GMT
- References: <1992Dec28.000443.7228@hot.com>
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- In-reply-to: Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com's message of Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:04:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec28.000443.7228@hot.com> Robert_La_Ferla@hot.com writes:
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- How does one create a gold tone in PostScript? I realize that gold is
- a metal and to create it you need to either render it or use a gold ink
- but I'm looking for a simpler way to achieve the same effect. I have
- some artwork containing gold arcs and lines which will be printed on a
- Canon CLC color laser printer. Note that the artwork is pure
- PostScript and was not created using an application.
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- Is there a combination of CMYK values that approximates a gold
- tone? Is there a sample of a rendered gold image that I could use as
- a fill pattern? How would I do the latter?
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- Robert La Ferla
- Hot Technologies
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- Gold is yellow plus the impression that the surface is
- `metallic'/`specular', just as silver is white/grey plus an impression that
- the surface is `metallic'/`specular'. You cannot create the impression of a
- metallic color merely by manipulating RGB or CMYK at a pixel. Context is
- important.
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- Surfaces with a specular component of reflection can sometimes be discerned
- because of strong localized high-lights, particularly high-lights that
- change in position as the viewer (or the light source) moves. In other
- words, the way to get the impression of `gold' or `silver' is to create a
- suitable spatial distribution of light and dark, preferrably with
- a large dynamic range. The best impression of `gold' would be in the
- portrayal of a curved surface, where most of the surface is shown as black,
- with one or more near parallel narrow streak of light yellow, with the
- brightness varying within in the sreak from the edge towards the center.
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- Berthold K.P. Horn
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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