colorgrad-rs

Rust color scales library for data visualization, charts, games, maps, generative art and others.

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Index

• Custom Gradient
• Preset Gradients
• Parsing GIMP Gradient
• Using the Gradient
• Examples
• Similar Projects
• Projects using colorgrad

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml

colorgrad = "0.6.1"

Custom Gradient

Basic

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new().build()?;

Custom Colors

use colorgrad::Color;

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .colors(&[
        Color::from_rgba8(0, 206, 209, 255),
        Color::from_rgba8(255, 105, 180, 255),
        Color::new(0.274, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0),
        Color::from_hsva(50.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0),
        Color::from_hsva(348.0, 0.9, 0.8, 1.0),
    ])
    .build()?;

Using Web Color Format

.html_colors() method accepts named colors, hexadecimal (#rgb, #rgba, #rrggbb, #rrggbbaa), rgb(), rgba(), hsl(), hsla(), hwb(), and hsv().

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["#C41189", "#00BFFF", "#FFD700"])
    .build()?;

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["gold", "hotpink", "darkturquoise"])
    .build()?;

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["rgb(125,110,221)", "rgb(90%,45%,97%)", "hsl(229,79%,85%)"])
    .build()?;

Domain & Color Position

Default domain is [0..1].

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
    .build()?;

assert_eq!(g.domain(), (0.0, 1.0));

Set the domain to [0..100].

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
    .domain(&[0.0, 100.0])
    .build()?;

assert_eq!(g.domain(), (0.0, 100.0));

Set the domain to [-1..1].

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
    .domain(&[-1.0, 1.0])
    .build()?;

assert_eq!(g.domain(), (-1.0, 1.0));

Set exact position for each color. The domain is [0..1].

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
    .domain(&[0.0, 0.7, 1.0])
    .build()?;

assert_eq!(g.domain(), (0.0, 1.0));

Set exact position for each color. The domain is [15..80].

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
    .domain(&[15.0, 30.0, 80.0])
    .build()?;

assert_eq!(g.domain(), (15.0, 80.0));

Blending Mode

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["#FFF", "#00F"])
    .mode(colorgrad::BlendMode::Rgb)
    .build()?;

Interpolation Mode

let g = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
    .html_colors(&["#C41189", "#00BFFF", "#FFD700"])
    .interpolation(colorgrad::Interpolation::Linear)
    .build()?;

Preset Gradients

All preset gradients are in the domain [0..1]. Uniform B-splines is used to interpolate the colors.

Diverging

colorgrad::br_bg()

colorgrad::pr_gn()

colorgrad::pi_yg()

colorgrad::pu_or()

colorgrad::rd_bu()

colorgrad::rd_gy()

colorgrad::rd_yl_bu()

colorgrad::rd_yl_gn()

colorgrad::spectral()

Sequential (Single Hue)

colorgrad::blues()

colorgrad::greens()

colorgrad::greys()

colorgrad::oranges()

colorgrad::purples()

colorgrad::reds()

Sequential (Multi-Hue)

colorgrad::turbo()

colorgrad::viridis()

colorgrad::inferno()

colorgrad::magma()

colorgrad::plasma()

colorgrad::cividis()

colorgrad::warm()

colorgrad::cool()

colorgrad::cubehelix_default()

colorgrad::bu_gn()

colorgrad::bu_pu()

colorgrad::gn_bu()

colorgrad::or_rd()

colorgrad::pu_bu_gn()

colorgrad::pu_bu()

colorgrad::pu_rd()

colorgrad::rd_pu()

colorgrad::yl_gn_bu()

colorgrad::yl_gn()

colorgrad::yl_or_br()

colorgrad::yl_or_rd()

Cyclical

colorgrad::rainbow()

colorgrad::sinebow()

Parsing GIMP Gradient

use colorgrad::Color;
use std::fs::File;
use std::io::BufReader;

let input = File::open("examples/Abstract_1.ggr")?;
let buf = BufReader::new(input);
let fg = Color::new(0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 1.0);
let bg = Color::new(1.0, 1.0, 1.0, 1.0);
let (grad, name) = colorgrad::parse_ggr(buf, &fg, &bg)?;

assert_eq!(name, "Abstract 1");

Using the Gradient

Get the domain

let grad = colorgrad::rainbow();

assert_eq!(grad.domain(), (0.0, 1.0));

Get single color at certain position

let grad = colorgrad::blues();

assert_eq!(grad.at(0.0).to_rgba8(), [247, 251, 255, 255]);
assert_eq!(grad.at(0.5).to_rgba8(), [109, 174, 213, 255]);
assert_eq!(grad.at(1.0).to_rgba8(), [8,   48,  107, 255]);

assert_eq!(grad.at(0.3).to_rgba8(), grad.repeat_at(0.3).to_rgba8());
assert_eq!(grad.at(0.3).to_rgba8(), grad.reflect_at(0.3).to_rgba8());

assert_eq!(grad.at(0.7).to_rgba8(), grad.repeat_at(0.7).to_rgba8());
assert_eq!(grad.at(0.7).to_rgba8(), grad.reflect_at(0.7).to_rgba8());

The difference of at(), repeat_at() and reflect_at().

Get n colors evenly spaced across gradient

let grad = colorgrad::rainbow();

for c in grad.colors(10) {
    println!("{}", c.to_hex_string());
}

Output:

#6e40aa
#c83dac
#ff5375
#ff8c38
#c9d33a
#7cf659
#5dea8d
#48b8d0
#4775de
#6e40aa

Hard-Edged Gradient

Convert gradient to hard-edged gradient with 11 segments and 0 smoothness.

let g = colorgrad::rainbow().sharp(11, 0.0);

This is the effect of different smoothness.

Examples

Gradient Image

fn main() -> Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error>> {
    let grad = colorgrad::CustomGradient::new()
        .html_colors(&["deeppink", "gold", "seagreen"])
        .build()?;

    let width = 1500;
    let height = 70;

    let mut imgbuf = image::ImageBuffer::new(width, height);

    for (x, _, pixel) in imgbuf.enumerate_pixels_mut() {
        let rgba = grad.at(x as f64 / width as f64).to_rgba8();
        *pixel = image::Rgba(rgba);
    }

    imgbuf.save("gradient.png")?;
    Ok(())
}

Example output:

Colored Noise

use noise::NoiseFn;

fn main() {
    let scale = 0.015;

    let grad = colorgrad::rainbow().sharp(5, 0.15);
    let ns = noise::OpenSimplex::new();
    let mut imgbuf = image::ImageBuffer::new(600, 350);

    for (x, y, pixel) in imgbuf.enumerate_pixels_mut() {
        let t = ns.get([x as f64 * scale, y as f64 * scale]);
        let rgba = grad.at(remap(t, -0.5, 0.5, 0.0, 1.0)).to_rgba8();
        *pixel = image::Rgba(rgba);
    }

    imgbuf.save("noise.png").unwrap();
}

// Map t which is in range [a, b] to range [c, d]
fn remap(t: f64, a: f64, b: f64, c: f64, d: f64) -> f64 {
    (t - a) * ((d - c) / (b - a)) + c
}

Example output:

Default Feature

• named-colors: Enables parsing from named colors. Requires phf. Can be disabled using default-features = false.

Similar Projects

• colorgrad (Go version of this library)
• colorous (Rust)
• chroma.js (Javascript)
• d3-scale-chromatic (Javascript)

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Links

• Color Blindness Simulator
• Visual System Simulator