flow_code/MATLAB/computeColor.m

function img = computeColor(u,v)

%   computeColor color codes flow field U, V

%   According to the c++ source code of Daniel Scharstein 
%   Contact: schar@middlebury.edu

%   Author: Deqing Sun, Department of Computer Science, Brown University
%   Contact: dqsun@cs.brown.edu
%   $Date: 2007-10-31 21:20:30 (Wed, 31 Oct 2006) $

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nanIdx = isnan(u) | isnan(v);
u(nanIdx) = 0;
v(nanIdx) = 0;

colorwheel = makeColorwheel();
ncols = size(colorwheel, 1);

rad = sqrt(u.^2+v.^2);          

a = atan2(-v, -u)/pi;

fk = (a+1) /2 * (ncols-1) + 1;  % -1~1 maped to 1~ncols
   
k0 = floor(fk);                 % 1, 2, ..., ncols

k1 = k0+1;
k1(k1==ncols+1) = 1;

f = fk - k0;

for i = 1:size(colorwheel,2)
    tmp = colorwheel(:,i);
    col0 = tmp(k0)/255;
    col1 = tmp(k1)/255;
    col = (1-f).*col0 + f.*col1;   
   
    idx = rad <= 1;   
    col(idx) = 1-rad(idx).*(1-col(idx));    % increase saturation with radius
    
    col(~idx) = col(~idx)*0.75;             % out of range
    
    img(:,:, i) = uint8(floor(255*col.*(1-nanIdx)));         
end;    

%%
function colorwheel = makeColorwheel()

%   color encoding scheme

%   adapted from the color circle idea described at
%   http://members.shaw.ca/quadibloc/other/colint.htm


RY = 15;
YG = 6;
GC = 4;
CB = 11;
BM = 13;
MR = 6;

ncols = RY + YG + GC + CB + BM + MR;

colorwheel = zeros(ncols, 3); % r g b

col = 0;
%RY
colorwheel(1:RY, 1) = 255;
colorwheel(1:RY, 2) = floor(255*(0:RY-1)/RY)';
col = col+RY;

%YG
colorwheel(col+(1:YG), 1) = 255 - floor(255*(0:YG-1)/YG)';
colorwheel(col+(1:YG), 2) = 255;
col = col+YG;

%GC
colorwheel(col+(1:GC), 2) = 255;
colorwheel(col+(1:GC), 3) = floor(255*(0:GC-1)/GC)';
col = col+GC;

%CB
colorwheel(col+(1:CB), 2) = 255 - floor(255*(0:CB-1)/CB)';
colorwheel(col+(1:CB), 3) = 255;
col = col+CB;

%BM
colorwheel(col+(1:BM), 3) = 255;
colorwheel(col+(1:BM), 1) = floor(255*(0:BM-1)/BM)';
col = col+BM;

%MR
colorwheel(col+(1:MR), 3) = 255 - floor(255*(0:MR-1)/MR)';
colorwheel(col+(1:MR), 1) = 255;