rgb color map

Hello, i'm using a different compiler which uses custom opengl functions for doing many different things, but i was having some trouble when printing out an rgb color map.

using a certain function:

Code:

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void graphics_pixel(int iX,int iY, int iR,int iG,int iB);

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which prints a pixel with the assigned color depth at the assigned x&y coordinates.

so far, i've gotten this:

Code:

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for(r=0;r<=255;r++){
                for(g=0;g<=255;g++){
                        for(b=0;b<=255;b++){
                                graphics_pixel(x,y,r,g,b);
                                y++;
                                if(y==255){y=0;x++;}
                                if(x==255)x=0;
                        }
                }
        }

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which does not exactly work,printing this yellow and red square thing, how would you go about writing this? sorry if i didn't describe anything enough, also how large do you think the max size would have to be?

thanks soo much in advance!

~Wiiplayer12

> i'm using a different compiler which uses custom opengl functions
Interesting, but useless information. Which one specifically?

What types are those variables?

Have you managed to write any opengl program with this compiler which produces the expected result?

Perhaps your rgb values run from 0 to 65535 ?
Ie, try setting all the values in 0x0000xx00 and not 0x000000xx

Quote:

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printing this yellow and red square thing

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That looks like what you wrote... is this what you see:
yellow.png?

What did you want to occur, and are you sure you're using openGL? unless graphics_pixel() is a function you wrote, the only hit Google gives for it is this thread...

yes, that's exactly what i got, and the organization i work with made the function, haven't released it to the public yet...so how do you think you would fix it, you don't have to if you don't want to...
~Wiiplayer12

the output is correct for the code you gave.

More to the point, you're trying to draw 256*256*256 pixels in a 255*255 square, so you're going to lose a lot of pixels.

well, then how do you think i could fix it to look more along the lines of this?

~Wiiplayer12

For starters, you'll need a 4096*4096 square -- that will at least get you all tlhe pixels. Then if you want your picture to look like that, you'll have to figure out what changes along a row (it appears, based on no evidence whatsoever, that they're using degrees of a color wheel, so you'll have to think about that).

The math behind a HLS/HSV colour mapping can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_color_space

As tabstop says, there's 16 million (16 777 216 to be precise) if you have 256 values for each of the R, G and B colours, so you'd need a 4096 x 4096 square to represent all of them. But you can skip a few here and there and still get "most" of them.

--
Mats

not exactly what you're looking for, but it should get you on the right path.

Code:

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        int s = 256;
        for(int i=0;i<s;i++)
        {
                for(int j=0;j<s;j++)
                {
                        int c1 = ((256-i)*(256-j))/256;
                        int c2 = (i*(256-j))/256;
                        Image1->Canvas->Pixels[i][j] = (c1<<16)+(c2<<8);
                }
        }
        for(int i=0;i<s;i++)
        {
                for(int j=0;j<s;j++)
                {
                        int c1 = ((256-i)*(256-j))/256;
                        int c2 = (i*(256-j))/256;
                        Image1->Canvas->Pixels[i+256][j] = (c1<<8)+c2;
                }
        }
        for(int i=0;i<s;i++)
        {
                for(int j=0;j<s;j++)
                {
                        int c1 = ((256-i)*(256-j))/256;
                        int c2 = (i*(256-j))/256;
                        Image1->Canvas->Pixels[i+512][j] = c1+(c2<<16);
                }
        }

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bitshift of 0 denotes red, bitshift of 8 is green, and 16 is blue.

thanks alot guys! but this seems too complicated, so i might just try it another time, sorry if i wasted all of you're time...

~Wiiplayer12