grough / processing-cubehelix

Cubehelix color scheme for Processing

Cubehelix Color Scheme for Processing

This library provides a version of the cubehelix color scheme for the Processing creative coding environment.

Get Started

1. Install Processing
2. Go to this repository's releases page and download the latest Cubehelix.zip file
3. Extract the zip file to the "libraries" sub-folder of your Processing documents folder
4. Launch Processing, go to File → Examples, and browse the Cubehelix examples

Usage

// Import the library
import grough.cubehelix.*;

// Create an instance
Cubehelix h = new Cubehelix();

// Get some colors
color black = h.color(0);
color white = h.color(1);
color other = h.color(0.667);

// Customize color scheme parameters (defaults shown)
h.start(0.5).rotations(1.5).hue(1.0).gamma(1.0);

// Get an array of equally spaced colors
color[] palette = h.array(16);

// Get an image of a gradient
PImage gradientImage = h.image(200, 100);

// Get an image of a palette containing a given number of colors
PImage paletteImage = h.image(200, 100, 16);