web safe colors in the 0.0-1.0 format"

Unusual question someone else proposed in group chat:
"Does anyone have a list of colors in the 0.0-1.0 format (preferably the 140 web safe set)?"

well heck much to my surprise, someone answered that question, but it's too late to delete this post, so here is a link to the answer: /327/20/138429/1.html

this isnt about web safe colors but along the same lines ... i use this widget instead of a list

vector float_color;

default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        llSetTexture("5748decc-f629-461c-9a36-a35a221fe21f",ALL_SIDES); //set to blank  
    }

    changed(integer ch)
    {
        if (ch & 2) // 2 = CHANGED_COLOR
        {
            float_color = llGetColor(ALL_SIDES);
            llSetText("current color\n"+ (string)float_color,float_color,1);
            llOwnerSay((string)float_color);
        }
    }
}

which gives you the full 16 million color spectrum within SL floating point... its pretty accurate when matching up textures with colored prims

Easy trick when setting SL colours... don't bother with internal 0-1 range, instead of specifying 'normal' vector use:

( <r, g, b> / 255.0 )

where r, g and b are red, green and blue component in the usual 0-255 range supplied by any graphics program. Let the script do menial work, it's what it's for after all ;s

im the oppsite i try to precalc as much as possible to save on the sim doing petty work

Of course, the original question was web safe colors. The link provided does a bunch of different colors, I doubt all of which are web safe.

Web safe colors just use the following six numbers in each of the Red, Green, and Blue categories to form a variety of colors.
Hex = Dec = SL
00 = 0 = 0.0
33 = 51 = 0.2
66 = 102 = 0.4
99 = 153 = 0.6
CC = 204 = 0.8
FF = 255 = 1.0

So for Web Safe Colors (which I don't know why you're limiting it to them only in SL), use only 0.0 through 1.0 in steps of 0.2.

having re read the original post its a bit superflous but....

I have a palette of 142 colours that I've generated from a copy of a web-safe palette.
I use two scripts, a colour server (look up by name) and then a colour look up by index.
I dont have access to my scripts atm but If you're interested I'll post the code here later.

Uh... web-safe colors are so 1996. SL requires True Color displays, which can display all colors formed by an RGB triple with each number between 0 and 255 (or 0 and 1.0 for SL), so there's really nothing at all to be gained from picking colors that are "web-safe". For that matter, web-safe colors really don't matter for the WEB, either, because there aren't really any graphics adapters that don't run in true color mode anymore.

If you were just looking for a standard palette with corresponding SL color-vector values, then I apologize.

I agree, my reason was to have a set of 'known' colours from which to choose. I didnt want to have to reinvent the (colour) wheel and decided exactly what rgb value constitutes dark maroon.

Well, the standard system file rgb.txt that comes with X-windows installations has a pretty exhaustive list of color names and corresponding RGB triples. Maybe you can find a copy and write a quick program to translate them into color vectors? Here's an example of a chart made from rgb.txt.

Converting those hex numbers into SL number (0.0 through 1.0) is easy..

All you have to do is seperate out the Red, Green and Blue values, so drop the '#' if it's up front, grab the next two characters for Red, the next two for Green, and the last two for Blue.

Then Convert them to decimal. (i've seen a function or two floating about that do this.)

And finally devide the decimal number by 255.

I'm with Osgeld, its optimisation at the easiest level.

No no. There is an easier way.

Just typecast it from string.

255 typecasted is still 255, not much help when you need a value of 1