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Cubehelix
license: gpl-3.0
(function() {
var radians = Math.PI / 180;
d3.scale.cubehelix = function() {
return d3.scale.linear()
.range([d3.hsl(300, .5, 0), d3.hsl(-240, .5, 1)])
.interpolate(d3.interpolateCubehelix);
};
d3.interpolateCubehelix = d3_interpolateCubehelix(1);
d3.interpolateCubehelix.gamma = d3_interpolateCubehelix;
function d3_interpolateCubehelix(γ) {
return function(a, b) {
a = d3.hsl(a);
b = d3.hsl(b);
var ah = (a.h + 120) * radians,
bh = (b.h + 120) * radians - ah,
as = a.s,
bs = b.s - as,
al = a.l,
bl = b.l - al;
if (isNaN(bs)) bs = 0, as = isNaN(as) ? b.s : as;
if (isNaN(bh)) bh = 0, ah = isNaN(ah) ? b.h : ah;
return function(t) {
var h = ah + bh * t,
l = Math.pow(al + bl * t, γ),
a = (as + bs * t) * l * (1 - l);
return "#"
+ hex(l + a * (-0.14861 * Math.cos(h) + 1.78277 * Math.sin(h)))
+ hex(l + a * (-0.29227 * Math.cos(h) - 0.90649 * Math.sin(h)))
+ hex(l + a * (+1.97294 * Math.cos(h)));
};
};
}
function hex(v) {
var s = (v = v <= 0 ? 0 : v >= 1 ? 255 : v * 255 | 0).toString(16);
return v < 0x10 ? "0" + s : s;
}
})();
<!DOCTYPE html>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<style>
canvas {
width: 960px;
height: 500px;
}
</style>
<canvas width="960" height="1">
<script src="//d3js.org/d3.v3.min.js"></script>
<script src="cubehelix.js"></script>
<script>
var canvas = document.querySelector("canvas"),
width = canvas.width,
color = d3.scale.cubehelix().domain([0, width - 1]),
context = canvas.getContext("2d"),
image = context.createImageData(width, 1);
for (var i = 0, j = -1, c; i < width; ++i) {
c = d3.rgb(color(i));
image.data[++j] = c.r;
image.data[++j] = c.g;
image.data[++j] = c.b;
image.data[++j] = 255;
}
context.putImageData(image, 0, 0);
</script>
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