[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] [off-topic] spoke too soon

[Michael Barton]

Please see below


On 10/3/07 12:13 PM, "Benjamin Ducke" <benjamin.ducke at ufg.uni-kiel.de>
wrote:

> [taking this over to the devel list]
> 
> Parsing GRASS colour rules is very simple. It's all in the
> GRASS Programmer's Manual.
> 
> Full docs for CPT format are here:
> 
> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt/doc/html/GMT_Docs/node58.html
> 
> (section 4.15 of the GMT docs)
> 
> Apparently, GMT supports HSV schemes, as well.
> 
> QUESTIONS:
> 
> 1. Does GRASS also support colour models other than RGB?

GRASS color names (e.g., red, blue, yellow)

> 2. Is '%" treated like a comment in the GRASS 'colr' files?

It is treated like a percent.

0% black
50% red
100% green

is translated as make the lowest (0%) value black and grade to red at the
median value (50%), then continue to grade to blue to the highest value
(100%)


> 3. Is '#' as a comment indicator also OK in 'colr' files?

I don't think this is accepted. But try and see.

> 4. GMT also has labels for colour ranges. Would it be a good
> idea to transfer those to the raster file (given that there
> is no category labelling already or the user chooses to
> overwrite it)?


Not sure what you mean here. Replace the label value with the RBG value?

Michael


> 
> Benjamin
> 
> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
>> On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote:
>>> Good stuff
>>> 
>>> All the palettes are available in GMT color format, which is just plain
>>> ASCII and very similar to GRASS' own colour rule files in the 'cols'
>>> database elements. The only major difference seems to be three
>>> additional lines at the end of the file specifying colours for
>>> foreground, background and no data areas which could simply be
>>> discarded.
>> 
>> Indeed. Will have to poke around in the r.colors source -- anyone an expert
>> on 
>> how the rules file is parsed?
>> 
>>> So how about adding an option cpt=filename to r.colors, to set the
>>> color rules for a raster map from a GMT ASCII file?
>> 
>> I think that this would be a great addition. The GMT folks might like it as
>> well.
>> 
>>> The best of these styles could still be hardcoded into r.colors'
>>> database.
>> 
>> Agreed.
>> 
>>> Benjamin
>>> 
>>> 
>>> P.S.: Some of these palettes actually have licenses attached to them.
>>> What sort of a world do we live in that requires the most trivial
>>> things to be licensed? Come on people, you can give _some_ things to
>>> the public domain w/o conditions ...
>> 
>> My thoughts exactly- however you are going to have to pay-up if you decide to
>> implement this idea!  j/k
>> 
>> Dylan
>> 
>>> Dylan Beaudette wrote:
>>>> Sorry about those last two messages. My fingers where too fast for my
>>>> brain, and inadvertently caused the keys ctrl-enter to be pressed (curse
>>>> you Kmail!).
>>>> 
>>>> What I had tried to mention was the collection of color palette files
>>>> here:
>>>> 
>>>> http://sview01.wiredworkplace.net/pub/cpt-city/
>>>> 
>>>> Perhaps we can convert a pile of these into GRASS-compatible color rules
>>>> files.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> 
>>>> Dylan
>> 
>> 
>> 

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