trying to convert rgb from a .net Color to a string such as "red" or "blue"

Question

All of my methods are failing me in various ways. different lighting can mess it all up too.

has anyone every trying to return a name given a rgb value? "red" "green" "blue" would be enough to satisfy my needs for today.

i have unsafe byte processing of images from my web cam.

Answer 1

If you have a list of known colors with names, you can see which of those known colors a given target color is 'closest' to, using a 'closeness' function along the lines of (F# code):

let Diff (c1:Color) (c2:Color) =
    let dr = (c1.R - c2.R) |> int
    let dg = (c1.G - c2.G) |> int
    let db = (c1.B - c2.B) |> int
    dr*dr + dg*dg + db*db

Whichever one of the known colors has the smallest diff to the target color you want to name, use that name.