POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.binaries.images : Easy colormapping : Re: Easy colormapping Server Time
28 Jun 2024 21:49:05 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Easy colormapping  
From: nemesis
Date: 23 Sep 2015 12:45:00
Message: <web.5602d7023b67646c352a052d0@news.povray.org>
"Norbert Kern" <nor### [at] t-onlinede> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> making nice colormaps can easily become a cumbersome task - especially in the
> case of fractal images, where the harmonious arrangement of colors is essential.
>
> Recently I stumbled across a nice little macro of Christophe Bouffartique
> (Insects and... Spiderman -
> http://www.irtc.org/ftp/pub/stills/2001-06-30/cbspider.zip). He used a photo to
> get colormap entries for a wood texture.
>
> With some tweaking this macro takes an image containing 1250 stripes of colors
> and returns colormaps with up to 256 entries. The order of the entries can be
> turned upside down too.

you, sir, are as amazing as Bouffartique and other greats from the povray
legendarium :thumbsup:


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