Introduction
Gerhard Richter created his paintings of pure colours in the years 1966…1974. His paintings are swatches of between six and 1,024 discrete colours, painstakingly mixed by hand and applied by brush. FlexiTable can help turn you into a great artist. Well, maybe nudge you in the right direction might be a better phrase …
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In minutes, you can create a new colour swatch. FlexiTable shows each colour's numeric value using both the RGB model and the HSV model. You can sort colours on any one of their red, green or blue values, and on any one of their hue, saturation or value numbers. Once sorted, you can save the file as a colour CSV file, which MicroStation can import into a Color Book.
Colour Swatch Samples
Here are a few examples of colour swatches created in MicroStation with the help of FlexiTable's colour tools.
Each swatch was printed, using MicroStation's normal print functions, to a raster file.
We used the Bentley Portable Network Graphics print driver to produce a PNG file, which is what you see here …
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| Random Colours 1 | Random Colours 2 |
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| Random Colours 3 | Random Colours 4 |
Sorting Colours
Sorting by RGB or HSV values
FlexiTable can sort colours in several ways. You can sort by the RGB red, green, or blue component value. You can sort by the HSV hue, saturation, or value. Here are examples of sorted palettes …
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| 1: 1024 Colours Sorted by RGB Green component | 2: 1024 Colours Sorted by RGB Green component |
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| 3: 1024 Colours Sorted by RGB Red component | 4: 1024 Colours Sorted by HSV Hue |
Extracting Sub-Swatches
Suppose you want a swatch of various shades of yellow, tones of green, or hues of red. You can use FlexiTable to help sort colours, then create a swatch using MicroStation graphics.
For example, suppose you want to make a swatch of yellow colours. Use FlexiTable to sort colours by some criteria, then save the sorted list to a CSV file. Using a text editor or Excel, delete all the colours that don't match your criteria. Reopen the file with FlexiTable, and create a swatch in your DGN model.
The swatches below were created from an original file of 1,024 random colours. We sorted the colours by hue using FlexiTable, then discarded the unwanted colours …
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| Yellow Swatch | Red Swatch |
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| Blue Swatch | Green Swatch |
