Color Palettes

[Ted Cox]

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grass at sun1.bham.ac.uk (Grass package) wrote:
>> 
>>   The quickest test I would use with r.colors is to take a simple raster map
>> with a single category and with r.colors do this:
>> r.colors map c=rules
>> > 1 brown
>> > end
>> 
>> Next, look at the rgb value placed for the brown in the $LOCATION/colr/map f
ile.
>> (brown is 191:127:63)
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>
>Alternatively, you probably have a file called 'rgb.txt' somewhere in your
>UNIX tree. Do a 'find' to find this. It is a long listing of rgb values
>and official color names, like so: 0 0 0 black, and by using a simple 'grep'
>script you can select those lines that are of interest to you. or that have
>rgb values similar to a known value.
>Hope this helps,
>
>       Martijn
>
>P. Martijn van Leusen -------------------------------------------------------+
>Leverhulme Research Fellow, The Wroxeter Hinterland Project                  |
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Another option. - I use an X utiltiy called xcolorsel to pick the color
I want for my grass colr file. xcolorsel will display the rgb.txt colors,
then you can easily cut & paste into your grass colr file. You can find
xcolorsel on sunsite.unc.edu - It compiled cleanly on sunos.