Re: MakeCPT RGB

Paul Wessel <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
makecpt -Fr -T0/6/1 -Crainbow

works fine.  This is GMT5.
-p

On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:59 AM, J.J. Green <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matthew,
> 
>> I am trying to generate a cpt file in RGB, but keep getting it in HSV
>> format.
>> 
>> My command is 'makecpt --COLOR_MODEL=RGB -T0/6/1 -Crainbow > sample.cpt'
>> 
>> I found this from a while back which indicates my problem, but I cannot
>> seem to find a fix:
>> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.gmt.user/6683
> 
> From the man-page: (4.5.7)
> 
>  The color model (RGB, HSV or CMYK) of the palette created by makecpt
>  will be the same  as  specified  in  the  header  of  the  master
>  cpt file. When there is no COLOR_MODEL entry in the master cpt
>  file, the COLOR_MODEL specified in the .gmt‐defaults4 file or on
>  the command line will be used.
> 
> so it sounds like the flag does not do what you expect it to.
> 
> You could, perhaps, use one of the rainbow palettes on cpt-city:
> 
>  http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/
> 
> for example
> 
> http://soliton.vm.bytemark.co.uk/pub/cpt-city/oc/tn/rainbow.png.index.html
> 
> cheers
> 
> Jim
> -- 
> J.J. Green,  Seaview Sensing Ltd.,
> http://seaviewsensing.com
> 
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