This repository contains a number of somewhat connected utilities which originated in the development of the svm-order-params project, but are independent from this application. It's components are split amongs several headers:

• color.hpp: Provides a colormap::color class representing a grayscale, RGB, or RGBA color, including the ability to mix colors.
• map.hpp: Provides the colormap::map, a functor that maps real numbers to a color by interpolating between colors at pre-defined support points.
• palettes.hpp: Defines a variety of ready-to-use colormap::maps, mostly inspired by ColorBrewer and the gnuplot-palettes repository by Gnuplotting (a.k.a. Hagen Wierstorf). The palettes are exposed through a global variable colormap::palettes, a std::map that maps names (std::strings) to colormap::maps.
• itadpt/map_iterator_adapter.hpp: Defines an iterator adapter that lazily applies a functor on a base iterator upon dereferenciation. Notable API are the non-member functions
  • map_iterator(BaseIterator, Functor&) which returns a map_iterator_adapter<BaseIterator, Functor>, and
  • map(Container const&, Functor&) which returns a quasi-container object mapped<Container, Functor>.
• grid.hpp: Provides a class colormap::grid which represents multidimensional uniform grids which can be initialized very easily and are cheap and iterable.
• pixmap.hpp: Provides a class colormap::pixmap which can write iterators over colors to disk in PPM (or PGM) format, both in binary, and in ASCII form.

To install colormaps use the following commands:

$ git clone https://github.com/JulianWww/colormap
$ mkdir build && cd build
$ cmake ..
$ make install

than include using:

find_package(colormap INTERFACE)

and add as a library to your project. Tested for:

• Unix

The following code snippet showcases some of the features of the headers in this repository. For a compilable example, see test/mandelbrot.cpp.

using namespace colormap;

// set up the grid: 701 x 401 grid points (pixels) representing the region
// [-2.5, 1] x [-1, 1].
grid<2, major_order::col> g { {701, {-2.5, 1.}}, {401, {-1., 1.}} };
using grid_point_t = typename decltype(g)::grid_point_type;

// set up the functor to be visualized on the grid, e.g. the mandelbrot set
auto mandelbrot = [] (grid_point_t c_arr) { /* omitted */ };

// Iterator adapter mapping grid points to function values.
// Result is a `mapped` object that behave like a container.
auto val = itadpt::map(g, mandelbrot);

// find the maximum value
double max = *std::max_element(val.begin(), val.end());

// get a colormap and rescale it
auto pal = palettes.at("inferno").rescale(1, max);
// and use it to map the values to colors
auto pix = itadpt::map(val, pal);

// Construct a PPM object from the `mapped` object `pix`. Color space is
// inferred from color type of pix. "inferno" is an RGB palette, so `pmap`
// will represent a PPM image. For a grayscale colormap, it would result in
// a PGM image.
pixmap<decltype(pix.begin())> pmap(pix.begin(), g.shape());

std::ofstream os("appleman." + pmap.file_extension(),
                 std::ios_base::binary);
pmap.write_binary(os);

produces the image appleman.ppm:

Copyright (C) 2018-2019 Jonas Greitemann

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