Date   : Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:28:57 -0500
From   : jules.richardson99@... (Jules Richardson)
Subject: Programming: Colour names in Sigsumeidsi

Farlie A wrote:
> I already have my own thoughts about how to program a simple translator, 
> I'm just interested in what other people here thought.

Storage is cheap - with a constraint placed on simplicity of the algorithm 
rather than performance, how about a monster[1] lookup table? :-) (It's 
possibly not even that slow, assuming a table sorted by RGB index, with the 
corresponding list of Sigsumeidsi colour names for a given RGB triple sorted 
by simplicity - it's just rather *big* ;-)

[1] anyone care to work out how monster? Assume you can encode the Sigsumeidsi 
names (e.g. there's really no point wasting 3 bytes to store "nul"; that's 
just a translation issue at the output stage)

cheers

Jules