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Lab color scale

09 May 2006 (Updated 10 May 2006)

Create color scale that prints well on grayscale printers

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Description	The function color_scale creates a color scale, or colormap, that is approximately uniform perceptually on both a color display and on a grayscale printer. The color scale is computed using the Lab* color space. It follows a uniform ramp along the L* direction, and it follows a semicircular path in the a-b plane. The function color_scale_tool launches a GUI that allows you to experiment easily with different input parameters for color_scale. For more information about these functions, see my image processing blog posting, http://blogs.mathworks.com/steve/?p=57
Required Products	Image Processing Toolbox
MATLAB release	MATLAB 7.2 (R2006a)
Zip File Content
Other Files	color_scale.m, color_scale_tool.fig, color_scale_tool.m, helpicon.mat

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Everyone's Tags	color, color scale colormap lab grayscale(2)
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Comments and Ratings (3)
08 Feb 2007	hassan quzmar
04 Jul 2007	michal sh
25 Jun 2008	Alexandre Tumlinson	Take a look at 'colorGray' which has similar functionality but with "rainbow" like color spectrum.

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Updates
10 May 2006	Added pointer to blog posting for more information.

Tag Activity for this File
Tag	Applied By	Date/Time
color	Steve Eddins	22 Oct 2008 08:24:59
color scale colormap lab grayscale	Steve Eddins	22 Oct 2008 08:24:59
color scale colormap lab grayscale	Eddy	02 May 2009 20:07:53

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