What is the difference between saturation and brightness?

Question

Hey,

In Colors theory, what is the difference between saturation and brightness?

Thanks for help and time.

Answer 1

http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212262,00.html

Answer 2

There's no point rattling off another 1-line answer because it's a rather large topic.

Wikipedia has this for HSL and HSV. Next there's an brief tutorial on Color Theory. Finally more on HSV And H2SV Color Space with some transformation code in C++.