[GRASS-dev] [GRASS GIS] #170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed

GDAL · May 16, 2008, 3:10pm

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: default | Version: svn-develbranch6
Keywords: r.colors |
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r.watershed has some color rule creation code it in which makes the random
rules not quite pastel in nature, but cool. it's a lot more pleasant than
r.color's color=random method.

see the r.watershed examples here:
http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/raster.php

it would be nice to move that rule generation code into libgis and then
add a new "r.colors color=random_cool" or similar option.
(and simplify r.watershed in the process)

My preference is that the seed would not be constant by default, so if you
don't like the result you just run r.colors again and d.redraw.

thanks,
Hamish

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GDAL · May 16, 2008, 3:19pm

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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  Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
      Type: enhancement | Status: new
  Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: default | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: | Keywords: r.colors
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Comment (by hamish):

'd.vect -c' could use it too

Hamish

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GDAL · May 19, 2008, 7:55am

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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  Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
      Type: enhancement | Status: new
  Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: default | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: | Keywords: r.colors
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Comment (by glynn):

Replying to [ticket:170 hamish]:
> r.watershed has some color rule creation code it in which makes the
random rules not quite pastel in nature, but cool. it's a lot more
pleasant than r.color's color=random method.
>
> see the r.watershed examples here:
> http://grass.osgeo.org/screenshots/raster.php
>
> it would be nice to move that rule generation code into libgis and then
add a new "r.colors color=random_cool" or similar option.
> (and simplify r.watershed in the process)

If I'm reading the code correctly, it creates a set of random colours,
then replaces any dark colours with non-random colours selected from
generated gradients. IOW, it's a fudge which shouldn't be elevated to a
library function.

If you just want to eliminate dark or saturated colours, it would be
preferable to add transformation functions to adjust and/or clip the
intensity, saturation and hue, which could then be applied to any existing
colour rule, not just random colours.

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GDAL · May 19, 2008, 8:41am

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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  Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
      Type: enhancement | Status: new
  Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: default | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: | Keywords: r.colors
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Comment (by hamish):

Replying to [comment:2 glynn]:
> If I'm reading the code correctly, it creates a set of random
> colours, then replaces any dark colours with non-random colours
> selected from generated gradients. IOW, it's a fudge which
> shouldn't be elevated to a library function.

ok.
fwiw I'm looking at a r.watershed map with one color as 27:36:70, fairly
dark.

> If you just want to eliminate dark or saturated colours,

this is the core of the wish I suppose,

> it would be preferable to add transformation functions to adjust
> and/or clip the intensity, saturation and hue, which could then
> be applied to any existing colour rule, not just random colours.

r.colors -m # for "mute"
?

It would be a nice excuse to create proper G_hsv2rgb() and G_rgb2hsv()
fns. ie calculate hue angle using real sine/cosine, not just use the
hexagon approx to the circle.
http://www.mandelbrot-dazibao.com/HSV/HSV.htm

I am also a little confused in my r.cpt2grass GMT color scale -> GRASS
colr/ rules converter: "value" = 0.0 is white, but is 1.0 black and 0.5
"maximum"? or is 1.0 full-scale color? Some of the GMT rules
(/usr/share/gmt/cpt/GMT_topo.cpt) have S all < 0.5 and look washed out
with my script unless you do S*=2. And another (GMT_sealand.cpt) has value
all = 1.0, and AFAICT that all becomes black?

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/23635/
http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/browser/grass-
addons/raster/r.colors.tools/r.cpt2grass

Maybe I just have to elevate my brain sugar and study it again.
(eg mixing up S and V and/or HSV and HIS)

the wikipedia page on it suggests V=0.0 is white and 1.0 is black.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV
shrug.

but I digress,
Hamish

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GDAL · May 19, 2008, 9:05am

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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  Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
      Type: enhancement | Status: new
  Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.4.0
Component: default | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: | Keywords: r.colors
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Comment (by hamish):

re. the fairly dark r.watershed color rule:

raster/r.watershed/ram/close_maps2.c
{{{
if((blue*.11 + red*.30 + green*.59) < 100) {
G_set_color(r, rd, gr, bl, &colors);
}}}

Matlab (or Octave) calc:
{{{
>> rgb = [ 27 36 70 ]
>> mult = [.11 .30 .59]
>> sum(rgb .* mult)
ans =

55.0700
}}}

55.07 < 100 ???

Hamish

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GDAL · May 8, 2009, 10:22am

#170: r.colors: make nice random colors like r.watershed
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  Reporter: hamish | Owner: grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org
      Type: enhancement | Status: new
  Priority: minor | Milestone: 6.5.0
Component: Raster | Version: svn-develbranch6
Resolution: | Keywords: r.colors
  Platform: All | Cpu: All
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Changes (by hamish):

  * platform: => All
  * component: default => Raster
  * cpu: => All
  * milestone: 6.4.0 => 6.5.0

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