Color Palettes

Detailed Description

Functions and class definitions for color palettes.

RGB palettes map an 8-bit value (0-255) to an RGB color.

You can create any color palette you wish; a couple of starters are provided: ForestColors_p, CloudColors_p, LavaColors_p, OceanColors_p, RainbowColors_p, and RainbowStripeColors_p.

Palettes come in the traditional 256-entry variety, which take up 768 bytes of RAM, and lightweight 16-entry varieties. The 16-entry variety automatically interpolates between its entries to produce a full 256-element color map, but at a cost of only 48 bytes of RAM.

Basic operation is like this (using the 16-entry variety):

1. Declare your palette storage:

   CRGBPalette16 myPalette;

2. Fill myPalette with your own 16 colors, or with a preset color scheme. You can specify your 16 colors a variety of ways:

   CRGBPalette16 myPalette(
       CRGB::Black,
       CRGB::Black,
       CRGB::Red,
       CRGB::Yellow,
       CRGB::Green,
       CRGB::Blue,
       CRGB::Purple,
       CRGB::Black,
    
       0x100000,
       0x200000,
       0x400000,
       0x800000,
    
       CHSV( 30,255,255),
       CHSV( 50,255,255),
       CHSV( 70,255,255),
       CHSV( 90,255,255)
   );

   Or you can initiaize your palette with a preset color scheme:

   myPalette = RainbowStripesColors_p;

3. Any time you want to set a pixel to a color from your palette, use ColorFromPalette() as shown:

   uint8_t index = /* any value 0-255 */;
   leds[i] = ColorFromPalette(myPalette, index);

   Even though your palette has only 16 explicily defined entries, you can use an "index" from 0-255. The 16 explicit palette entries will be spread evenly across the 0-255 range, and the intermedate values will be RGB-interpolated between adjacent explicit entries.

   It's easier to use than it sounds.

Topics
	Palette Classes
	Class definitions for color palettes.
	Palette Color Functions
	Functions to retrieve smooth color data from palettes
	Palette Upscaling Functions
	Functions to upscale palettes from one type to another.
	Predefined Color Palettes
	Stock color palettes, only included when used.