1Graph::colour(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Graph::colour(3)
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6 GD::Graph::colour - Colour manipulation routines for use with GD::Graph
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9 use GD::Graph::colour qw(:colours :lists :files :convert);
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12 The GD::Graph::colour package provides a few routines to work with
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17 colour_list( number of colours )
18 Returns a list of number of colours colour names known to the package.
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21 sorted_colour_list( number of colours )
22 Returns a list of number of colours colour names known to the package,
23 sorted by luminance or hue. NB. Right now it always sorts by
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27 _rgb( colour name )
28 Returns a list of the RGB values of colour name. if the colour name is
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33 _hue( R,G,B )
34 Returns the hue of the colour with the specified RGB values. Exported
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38 Returns the luminance of the colour with the specified RGB values.
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41 add_colour(colourname => [$r, $g, $b]) or add_colour('#7fe310')
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44 rgb2hex($red, $green, $blue)
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46 These functions translate a list of RGB values into a hexadecimal
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50 read_rgb( file name )
51 Reads in colours from a rgb file as used by the X11 system.
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58 GD::Graph::colour::read_rgb("rgb.txt") or die "cannot read colours";
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60 Will allow you to use any colours defined in rgb.txt in your graph.
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64 white, lgray, gray, dgray, black, lblue, blue, dblue, gold, lyellow,
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66 purple, dpurple, lorange, orange, pink, dpink, marine, cyan, lbrown,
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70 Martien Verbruggen <mgjv@tradingpost.com.au>
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72 Copyright
73 GIFgraph: Copyright (c) 1995-1999 Martien Verbruggen. Chart::PNGgraph:
74 Copyright (c) 1999 Steve Bonds. GD::Graph: Copyright (c) 1999 Martien
75 Verbruggen.
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77 All rights reserved. This package is free software; you can
78 redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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81 GD::Graph, GD::Graph::FAQ
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85perl v5.12.0 2005-12-14 Graph::colour(3)