Cycle/wall color table

[Jonathan]

I was messing with the color code, and arrived at this. It's based on the (0.15, 0.3, 0.15) floor. If you want one for another floor, just ask. Values are in RGB hex.

[Tank Program]

So what is "this" exactly?

[Jonathan]

It's an accurate color picker. Each 16x16 square represents a color. The 5 pixels on the left are the cycle, the others are the wall. In the bottom right it shows what you'd have to enter in Armagetron to use that color. FA1 means red=15=0xF, green=10=0xA, blue=1=0x1.

Some random notes:
- It covers every color in the 0–15 range.
- The cycle and wall colors can be different because they use different floor color avoidance parameters.
- That floor color avoidance is also why I mentioned I used a (0.15, 0.3, 0.15) floor.
- To locate a color that you already know, store the remainder and the quotient of [RGB]/4 in [RGB]l and [RGB]h, respectively. The location of the color is then (Rl + 4 * Gl + 16 * Bl, Rh + 4 * Gh + 16 * Bh). Example (using C-like bit ops):

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R  = 15
G  = 10
B  =  1
Rh = 15 >> 2 = 3
Rl = 15 &  3 = 3
Gh = 10 >> 2 = 2
Gl = 10 &  3 = 2
Bh =  1 >> 2 = 0
Bl =  1 &  3 = 1
R  = 15
G  = 10
B  =  1
Rh = 15 >> 2 = 3
Rl = 15 &  3 = 3
Gh = 10 >> 2 = 2
Gl = 10 &  3 = 2
Bh =  1 >> 2 = 0
Bl =  1 &  3 = 1
x  = (Rl | Gl << 2 | Bl << 4) = (3 | 2 << 2 | 1 << 4) = (3 | 8 | 16) = 27
y  = (Rh | Gh << 2 | Bh << 4) = (3 | 2 << 2 | 0 << 4) = (3 | 8 |  0) = 11

Graphical version: red is spread like this:

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0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 ...
4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 4 5 6 7 ...
8 9 A B 8 9 A B 8 9 A B ...
C D E F C D E F C D E F ...
0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 0 1 2 3 ...
...

Green is similar, but uses a 4x coarser grid:

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0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 ...
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 ...
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 ...
0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 ...
4 4 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 4 4 4 4 ...
...

Blue is to green as green is to red.

[spirit]

Do you think anybody will understand that????
Every newbie trying to create his/her own bike-wall combination will surely give up after 5 seconds.
Try to create something like shown on icemans site - a gadget or a color table that a normal human is willing to use.

P.S.: Ruined my eyes while trying to understand this.

[Jonathan]

You don't have to understand the inner workings to use it. Just pick a color and enter it in the game. iceman's only has a limited selection of colors (though it does have a few overflowed colors - in fact that's all it has), and isn't as accurate. Mine was meant to be more complete, but not huge, so I had to make the cells very compact.

[wrtlprnft]

Actually it's not that hard to find a given color:
First look at the blue. That's the bix 16x16 squares, and they are aligned like this:

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0 1 2 3
4 5 6 7
8 9 a b
c d e f

Then look at the box you just found and your green value. Within the box the red values are aligned in 4x4 boxes. Once you found that box you just have to find your red value in it

oh, yeah:
0 = 0x0
1 = 0x1
2 = 0x2
3 = 0x3
4 = 0x4
5 = 0x5
6 = 0x6
7 = 0x7
8 = 0x8
9 = 0x9
10 = 0xA
11 = 0xB
12 = 0xC
13 = 0xD
14 = 0xE
15 = 0xF

[Jonathan]

That's my explanation, but inside out.

[Big Blue Box]

Do you think anybody will understand that????
Every newbie trying to create his/her own bike-wall combination will surely give up after 5 seconds.
Try to create something like shown on icemans site - a gadget or a color table that a normal human is willing to use.

P.S.: Ruined my eyes while trying to understand this.

yeah... that chart had me lost the second i layed eyes on it...

[Big Blue Box]

oh and the codes you gave me for my question were only 2 of the 3 codes and my cycle still seems to be a defalt greyish black cycle and walls.

[Jonathan]

That's simply the result of cramming lots of information in a small space.

Let's keep your question in its own thread.