True Red to Green

relove!

Actually, I've already put together a program that manages color palettes, including gradients. It runs on Windows. If someone can point me to a nice website where people upload their freeware creations for others to download, I'd be glad to make it available there.

Okay, here is one:

It's interesting but a bit too much numbers for me. I need to automate it, I guess. I tried to reprogram this color blender, but got stuck in the code:
http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/color-blend/

Hmm, maybe later. Or do you know a tiny (online?) tool to make linear transitions? Thanks again for your explanations :)

Thanks a lot Vid the Kid! I'll try it (and maybe make a little javaScript tool to automate it).

algorifficaly colorful

Well, you want to do all your math in a linear colorspace. To convert sRGB ("Standard RGB" color space) to linear, divide each of the red, green, and blue values by 255, and then raise to an exponent of 2.2. Now you have values between 0 and 1 which represent the actual intensity of the colors. In linear RGB, the colors in this particular palette look like this:
(1, 0, 0) Red
(.75, .25, 0) Honeyscotch
(.5, .5, 0) Too Much Mustard
(.25, .75, 0) Flubber
(0, 1, 0) Primary Green
Looking at the numbers in this linear form, it's quite easy to see how they were derived. Now to convert back to sRGB, raise each number to the power of 0.4545454545, and then multiply by 255. Of course, since most applications only take integer sRGB values, you'll have to do some rounding.

I love it! How is the algorithm?