Spectrum: A C++ Header Library for Colour Map Management
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2018
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The Eurographics Association
Abstract
The use of colour mapping is fundamental to visualisation research. It acts as an additional layer beyond rendering in the spatial dimensions and provides a link between values in any dataset. When designing and building visualisation research software, the process of creating and managing a colour mapping system can be time-consuming and complex. Existing alternatives offer niche features and require complex dependencies or installations. We present Spectrum; an open source colour map management library that is developer friendly with no installation required, and that offers a wide variety of features for the majority of use cases. We demonstrate the utility of the library through simple snippets of code and a number of examples which illustrate its ease of use and functionality, as well as a video demonstrating the installation and use of the library in under two minutes. It is a very valuable jump-start tool for developers and researchers who need to focus on other tasks.
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@inproceedings{10.2312:cgvc.20181218,
booktitle = {Computer Graphics and Visual Computing (CGVC)},
editor = {{Tam, Gary K. L. and Vidal, Franck},
title = {{Spectrum: A C++ Header Library for Colour Map Management}},
author = {Roberts, Richard C. and McNabb, Liam and AlHarbi, Naif and Laramee, Robert S.},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Eurographics Association},
ISBN = {978-3-03868-071-0},
DOI = {10.2312/cgvc.20181218}
}