[GRASS-user] Color names?

[Rainer M Krug]

Thanks a lot - that answers my question

Rainer

On Sat, Jan 17, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Glynn Clements
<glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:
>
> Rainer M Krug wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am looking for a list of the available color names one can use
>> (e.g.in r.colors), but I couldn't find them. Could anybody provide me
>> with a link of where I can find them or a list of them?
>
> lib/gis/color_str.c contains the list, as does include/colors.h, and
> the output from d.colorlist.
>
> FWIW, the list is:
>
>        black
>        red
>        green
>        blue
>        yellow
>        cyan
>        magenta
>        white
>        grey (alias gray)
>        orange
>        aqua
>        indigo
>        violet (alias purple)
>        brown
>
> This list is used for most GRASS commands, but *not* by ps.map, which
> has its own table. Although ps.map supports the same set of names, the
> actual colours differ in a few cases:
>
>        name    ps.map          other
>                R    G    B     R    G    B
>
>        grey    0.75 0.75 0.75  0.50 0.50 0.50
>        aqua    0.00 0.75 0.75  0.40 0.50 1.00
>        brown   0.75 0.50 0.25  0.70 0.30 0.10
>
> --
> Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>
>



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