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- Description of color code
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- SAOimage can handle any of a variety of color map modes. At this time,
- monochrome, pseudocolor, and pseudocolor with an overlay plane are supported.
- Fixed color is planned for the future. Reserving a new colormap is not
- yet supported, either, but planned for the future. The imaging software
- does not need to know anything about the type of color map, excepting
- monochrome.
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- For all of the color modes, the image is mapped from 0 to maxcolor, and then
- remapped to the actual display value using the cellmap. The cellmap is
- established by the code which Allocates color map cells. In the case of
- monochrome, maxcolor is 255 and a dither map or error diffusion code is
- applied to the final value. The cell map may be used if an additional
- stage of user control is desired.
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- SAOimage uses a heirarchy of color maps to determine what the user gets,
- based on what the user wants. The order is colors with an overlay for
- the cursor, simple cell based color, and halftone bitmap. The selection
- starts with what was requested. If that cannot be arranged, it drops to
- the next.
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- The pseudocolor mapping is based on a table of inflection points with a
- color intensity at each point of inflection. The color is interpolated
- between these points. Each color has its own table. There is not need
- for the inflection points of one color to have the same inflection level
- or intensity as any other.
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- The intensities range from 0 to 1.0 and the inflection levels range from
- 0 to 1.0. The intensity and levels are scaled appropriately for the
- hardware and the colormap internally. This makes the pseudocolor tables
- hardware independent. However, it cannot guarantee two colors to be in
- adjeacent levels (i.e. levels 1 and 2). The table can be stretched, such
- that the range of levels extends beyond 0 and 1 in either direction.
- Then only the map section between 0 and 1 is converted to the actual
- integer pseudocolor map range. The number of inflection points is
- limited, usually to the number of entries in the expected display
- hardware (i.e. 256). To make a step function takes two entries (same
- level, different intensity) so a complete arbitrary colormap cannot be
- represented using psseudocolor tables. For that, a fixed color mode must
- be used.
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