Question: How Does Flash CS4 Color Panel Calculate Hue?

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I'm puzzled. For a project, I need to calculate the hue of a color from its rgb values. I've found a few different methods to do this, and coded up two of them. They return consistent results, and agree with online calculators I've found. So far, so good.

But then I opened up the Flash CS4 color panel, to quickly look up colors, and found that it uses different hue values. And I'm wondering why?

When I plug an RGB value like (153, 153, 255) into my code, I get back a Hue value of 240. Those same values in the Flash color panel gives a different value for Hue (160).

This has got my curiosity truly piqued. I was hoping to be able to post an answer, but I haven't had any luck finding one yet.

Google's new "Interest Based" AdSense

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