TV colors- basic crayola table

ServoM

Has anyone distilled the color code scheme into a *basic* set of colors that can be quickly and easily used in the graphics demos?

Consider something not far from 'see spot run'...

Think of a box of 8 crayolas: red, yellow, blue, green, black, brown, purple, orange.

For grins, add white.

A simply defined set like this will make the graphics module infinitely easier to use, immediately.

-M

Baggers

I think OBC was working on this some time back!

ericball

I don't know about 8 colors, but I'd recommend starting with:

$02, $03, $04, $05, $06, $07  = black to white greyscale
$xC = pale colors  
$y8 = bright colors

 x  y
 3 11 magenta
 5 13 red
 7 15 yellow
11  3 green
13  5 cyan
15  7 blue

That gives you 18 colors to work with.

Dr_Acula

I'm not sure about TV, as TV can do more than VGA, but attached is the complete VGA palette. I coded these manually and it took about an hour to create. There are two grays in there as well as black and white.

jazzed

I've often had the Crayola problem Many video drivers suffer on ease of use.
Here's a list of names and values I developed last month based on HTML names.
I'm sure several values are wrong, but it's a start.

The 8 color Crayola box is hiding there too.

    BLACK        = 1
    DARKEST_GREY = 2 ' well its BLACK too
    DARK_GREY    = 3
    GREY         = 4
    LIGHT_GREY   = 5
    WHITE_GREY   = 6
    WHITE        = 7
    INDIAN_RED4  = 185
    CORAL3       = 170
    CORAL2       = 171
    SANDY_BROWN  = 172
    LIGHT_SALMON2= 190
    YELLOW       = 158
    WHITE2       = 103
    LIGHT_GREEN  = 8
    BLUE         = 9
    BLUE1        = 10
    VIOLET       = 11
    PURPLE       = 12
    PURPLE3      = 250
    MED_PURPLE4  = 233
    LT_PURPLE    = 13
    LT_PURPLE1   = 14
    LT_GREEN     = 15
    L1_GREEN     = 17
    GOLD         = 24
    GOLD2        = 173
    GOLD3        = 157
    DODGER_BLUE  = 28
    DODGER_BLUE2 = 175
    AZURE        = 29
    SKY_BLUE     = 29
    LIGHT_SKY_BLUE = 30
    GOLDENROD    = 31
    KHAKI1       = 174
    DARK_GOLDENROD4 = 154
    LIGHT_GOLDENROD4 = 156
    GOLDENROD2   = 189
    GOLDENROD4   = 155
    BURNT_ORANGE = 40
    ORANGE       = 188
    DARK_ORANGE2 = 188
    CORNFLOWER_BLUE = 41
    ROYAL_BLUE   = 43
    ROYAL_BLUE2  = 152
    DEEP_SKY_BLUE = 44
    STEEL_BLUE   = 45
    STEEL_BLUE1  = 168
    STEEL_BLUE2  = 191
    LIGHT_CYAN   = 46
    RED          = $BB
    FIREBRICK    = 47
    FIREBRICK2   = 56
    FIREBRICK4   = 202
    MAROON       = 203
    MAROON2      = 204
    MAGENTAX     = 205
    NAVY         = 57
    NAVY_BLUE    = 57
    SLATE_BLUE   = 59
    'DEEP_SKY_BLUE2 = 60
    CYAN2        = 61
    CYAN1        = 62
    CYAN         = 60
    FIREBRICK3   = 63
    HOT_PINK     = 72
    HOT_PINK4    = 217
    HOT_PINK1    = 111
    HOT_PINK2    = 120
    LIGHT_PINK   = 222
    LIGHT_PINK1  = 223
    SEA_GREEN4   = 74
    FOREST_GREEN = 75
    SEA_GREEN    = 76
    TURQUOISE    = 77
    TURQUOISE1   = 200
    TURQUOISE2   = 78
    MAGENTA      = 88
    MAGENTA1     = 104
    MAGENTA2     = 95
    DARK_SLATE_GREY = 89
    DARK_GREEN   = 90
    GREEN        = 109
    YELLOW_GREEN = 92
    SEA_GREEN2   = 93
    SEA_GREEN1   = 94
    DARK_SEA_GREEN4  = 105
    LIME_GREEN   = 106
    GREEN3       = 107
    GREEN2       = 107
    GREEN1       = 108
    SPRING_GREEN2 = 110
    CHARTREUSE3  = 141
    CHARTREUSE2  = 125
    CHARTREUSE   = 126
    DARK_ORCHID  = 136
    GREEN_YELLOW = 140
    GREEN_YELLOW1= 142
    LAWN_GREEN   = 141
    BRIGHT_GREEN = 216
    MEDIUM_ORCHID3 = 143
    MEDIUM_ORCHID1 = 206
    MEDIUM_ORCHID  = 234