Rolf's Colour Wheel Applet

Use this applet to pick a colour and convert between RGB (red, green, blue) or HSB (hue, saturation and brightness) colour models. You can click on the colour wheel (or color wheel!) itself, type in RGB or HSB values, or use the hue, saturation and brightness sliders on the right. To compare colours, select a colour from the top and drag it onto one of the swatches on the left.

The hex version of the RGB value useful for picking colours for use in HTML pages, and the HSB values are often useful within Java (but beware of trying to set a hue of 1.000!).

You can view the Java source if you like. It's one of the first Java programs I wrote but amazingly it still seems to work in today's browsers (though the colour swatches seems to be broken).

[If you're interested in digital video or photography, take a look at CatDV 2.0, a media asset database by the same author.]

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December 1996