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27x Reclassify color gradient

domlysz edited this page on Jan 5, 2019on Jan 5, 2019
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In node editor when a color ramp node is selected a new panel named Reclassify appear in editor
properties sheft.

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The main purpose of the panel is to help the user to setting the color ramp stops. Color ramp node input
values must be range from 0 to 1, so it's hard to make the relationship between theses normalized values
and a physical value like height, slope or aspect.

Values display in reclassify panel are converted to represents their physical equivalent. To compute this
correctly the user must choose the display mode of the panel according to the currently applied materials.

Height mode scale the values according to the object bounding box to get the true altitude
Slope mode multiply the node value by 100 to get the slope in degrees (as explained in node setup
description for slope material)
Aspect mode multiply the value by 360 to get azimuth angle (with north = 0°)

Manual editing

You can directly edit in the panel color and position of each stops of the color ramp node. You can also
add a new stop or delete an existing one.

Color gradient settings

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You can switch color ramp node interpolation between constant and linear. Linear interpolation make a
continuous ramp while constant interpolation make a discrete ramp.

You can also reverse the color ramp. Note that this tool doesn't work like the tool include in the color
ramp node because it reverse only the colors and not the positions.

Quick color gradient edit

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This tool allows to change colors of each stops of the color ramp node by refering to a small gradient
defined on the fly by the user. For each stop of the color ramp node, the script will use this user defined
gradient to evaluate the color at this stop's position.

For example, if we define a gradient with 5 colors then the preview display in the popup dialog represents
the expected colors at positions 0 - 0.2 - 0.4 - 0.6 - 0.8 - 1. In the node, the color at position 0.5 will be
computed by interpolating between color 3 and color 4.

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Sometimes, there is no stops at the bounds of the color ramp node (positions 0 and 1). To fit the quick
gradient definition to this special case you can use the dedicated option.

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Import SVG gradient

This addon is packaged with a few SVG color ramp. All these ramp are pick up from the cpt-city archive.

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SVG files are stored in Blender_install_folder\2.xx\scripts\addons\terrain_analysis\gradients. You can add,

edit or remove svg file from here to manage your color ramp library.

Like previous tool, for each stop of the color ramp node, the script evaluate by interpolation the color
inside the svg gradient at the corresponding stop position.

Export to SVG

You can export actual color ramp node configuration to svg files. This file will be stored in
Blender_install_folder\2.xx\scripts\addons\terrain_analysis\gradients folder, so the ramp is added to the
library and can be immediatly reused.

There are 2 methods to build the svg file:

Use actual stops build svg ramp with exactly the same positions and colors currently define in the
color ramp node. There is no interpolation.
Interpolate n colors produce a svg gradient with a predefined number of colors interpolate from the
color ramp node definition. The interpolation options of the popup window will only be used along
with this method.

SVG gradient can be continuous or discrete, use the dedicated checkbox to produce one or the other
type.

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About color space and interpolation methods

Interpolation can be computed through RGB or HSV color space. HSV interpolation often gives better
results, but in this color space hue is cyclic and the interpolation must be done through the shortest path
(clockwise or counterclockwise). By defaut this addon use the shortest path.

You can use several algorithms for interpolation:

Linear is the most simple way but this method do not provides a smooth interpolation.
Spline interpolation gives smooth results. Here we use the Akima method instead of the well know
Cubic spline. The disadvantage of cubic splines is that they could oscillate in the neighborhood of an
outlier while the Akima spline is less affected by them.

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Discrete isn't an interpolation method, it just return the previous color.

Nearest isn't an interpolation method, it just return the nearest color.

Auto reclassify

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This tool allows to automatically classify the values following specified rules:

Fixed classes number produce an predefined number of classes by divided equally the entire range
of data values. The interval is determined by the desired number of classes. Note that for define x
classes we need x+1 stops in the color ramp.

Equal interval value produce a similar result but instead of predefining the number of classes, we
define the interval. The number of classes is determined by the desired interval.

Target interval value make a stop for each multiple of the target value. This method is ideal if you
want to classifying with an absolute step value. The intervals will not be necessary equals.

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Quantile classification assigns the same number of data values to each class.
Natural break classification determine the best arrangement of values into different classes. It use an
optimization on kmeans algorithm to the case of one dimensionnal data. Results are similar to the
well know Jenks natural breaks classification.
Aspect reclassification is a specific method dedicated to aspect map. The number of classes
determine the number of azimuth represented.

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