Color Map to png file

ParaView Support
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I am looking for a way via python (simple.py) to extract an image of the color map. Any pointers on how I might do this for say cool2warm? I just need access to the raw values of the table.

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do you want an image or the values ?

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Ultimately, I want to be able to create images of arbitrary sizes of any color map in paraview. I assume that the 'color discretization / number of values` allows me to control the underlying size of the lookup table, so if I can get access to that array of rgb values, then I can make images of any size. That said, I haven’t figured out how to get access to the array yet.

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Like this ?

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Yes

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Well you can do that by just controlling the style of the color map, here is a state file to demonstrate it:

cm.pvsm (313.7 KB)

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but only the color table values.

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I do not understand, do you want an image with colors or the values of the color map in a text form ?

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I want an array of rgb values.

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Here is how to do it:

Peek 2021-11-05 15-42

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Thanks for responding.

Let me try thing again. I am assuming the cool2warm color table is discretized into say 256 values (since there is an option in the gui that asks me how many bins I want to discretize the cmap into), where the 0 index maps to the beginning of the normalized range (i.e.,m [0,1]). 255 maps to 1. Those are the values I am interested in getting, not the RGB points that define the color map in the diverging color space.

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I’m afraid these discretized values can’t be recovered from the interface of ParaView.

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Even in python?

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Yes, the actual discretized values are only computed at the rendering step.

That being said, this discretization is trivial, you can just compute it from the initial RGB values.

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So just implement the six supported color spaces in python?

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For anyone wondering:

    lut = display.LookupTable.GetClientSideObject()

    dataRange = customRange
    if not dataRange:
        dataRange = lut.GetRange()

    delta = (dataRange[1] - dataRange[0]) / float(numSamples)

    colorArray = vtkUnsignedCharArray()
    colorArray.SetNumberOfComponents(3)
    colorArray.SetNumberOfTuples(numSamples)

    rgb = [ 0, 0, 0 ]
    for i in range(numSamples):
        lut.GetColor(dataRange[0] + float(i) * delta, rgb)
        r = int(round(rgb[0] * 255))
        g = int(round(rgb[1] * 255))
        b = int(round(rgb[2] * 255))
        colorArray.SetTuple3(i, r, g, b)
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