An Intelligent System for the Selection of Conspicuousness Color Sets

摘要

Color is preattentively observed and used to divide the visual environment into objects. This characteristics makes it particularly effective in coding and formatting qualitative information. In this paper we describe the main feature of a system supporting the selection of color palettes for nominal data representation and graphic interface design. The core of the system is an algorithm for the selection of high contrast color sets. The system is mainly based on visual interaction providing effective and tools for browsing the Munsell color space and setting perceptual constraints on the number and type of colors the algorithm will automatically select. The system supports the display device characterization throughout ICC profiles definition, making therefore possible to process (e.g. store, export...) colors in terms of standard independent color representation.