On Wednesday 03 October 2007, Benjamin Ducke wrote: > Good stuff > > All the palettes are available in GMT color format, which is just plain > ASCII and very similar to GRASS' own colour rule files in the 'cols' > database elements. The only major difference seems to be three > additional lines at the end of the file specifying colours for > foreground, background and no data areas which could simply be > discarded.
Indeed. Will have to poke around in the r.colors source -- anyone an expert on how the rules file is parsed? > So how about adding an option cpt=filename to r.colors, to set the > color rules for a raster map from a GMT ASCII file? I think that this would be a great addition. The GMT folks might like it as well. > The best of these styles could still be hardcoded into r.colors' > database. Agreed. > Benjamin > > > P.S.: Some of these palettes actually have licenses attached to them. > What sort of a world do we live in that requires the most trivial > things to be licensed? Come on people, you can give _some_ things to > the public domain w/o conditions ... My thoughts exactly- however you are going to have to pay-up if you decide to implement this idea! j/k Dylan > Dylan Beaudette wrote: > > Sorry about those last two messages. My fingers where too fast for my > > brain, and inadvertently caused the keys ctrl-enter to be pressed (curse > > you Kmail!). > > > > What I had tried to mention was the collection of color palette files > > here: > > > > http://sview01.wiredworkplace.net/pub/cpt-city/ > > > > Perhaps we can convert a pile of these into GRASS-compatible color rules > > files. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grassuser mailing list [email protected] http://grass.itc.it/mailman/listinfo/grassuser
