3D Color Selection Interface for Shadow and Highlight Transitions
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital image processing applications lack the ability to intuitively simulate shadow and lighting transitions in three-dimensional appearances using standard color selectors, which only allow asynchronous adjustments in hue, saturation, and brightness, limiting the user's ability to create realistic three-dimensional effects in two-dimensional documents.
Innovation Solution
A rendered illuminated three-dimensional object is used as a color selector, providing a context for users to visualize how base colors change in relation to shadow and lighting regions, allowing intuitive selection of colors along a three-dimensional surface with varying hue, saturation, and brightness based on light sources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If a standard color selector is used to adjust color properties, then individual color parameters (hue, saturation, brightness) can be modified, but the user cannot intuitively visualize and select colors along three-dimensional shadow and lighting transitions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent transitions from a two-dimensional color selector interface to a three-dimensional color sphere that visually represents shadow, base color, and highlight regions. This dimensional enhancement allows users to intuitively understand and select colors along lighting transitions, preserving contextual color information while improving ease of operation.
2Measurement precision
If sliders are used to adjust color parameters linearly, then precise control over hue, saturation, and brightness is achieved, but the user cannot easily envision how different lightness changes affect three-dimensional appearances
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a three-dimensional color sphere where colors naturally transition from shadow through base to highlight regions, visually demonstrating how lightness changes affect three-dimensional appearances. This maintains precise color parameter control while preserving the visual context of three-dimensional lighting effects.
3Adaptability or versatility
If asynchronous adjustment of color properties is used, then each parameter can be independently controlled, but the process of creating realistic shadow and lighting transitions becomes difficult and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the independent control of hue, saturation, and brightness parameters into a unified three-dimensional color sphere interface. Users can simultaneously adjust all color properties by selecting positions on the sphere, maintaining parameter flexibility while dramatically improving the efficiency of creating realistic shadow and lighting transitions.
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AI summary
A color selection method includes displaying, on a display device, a three-dimensional object having an illumination highlight, wherein the three-dimensional object has a plurality of modified colors of a base color arranged along a surface of the three-dimensional object, wherein each location of said surface is associated with a modified color of the plurality of modified colors, wherein each modified color is determined based on a proximity of the associated location relative to a location of the illumination highlight, and wherein the three-dimensional object includes a selection indicator movable along the surface of the three-dimensional object for selectively defining the modified color to be selected.