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<H1>HDF5 Palette Specification </H1>
<P>This section is a work in progress page. Please send comments to <A
href="mailto:davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu">davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu</A>. Anything and
everything on this page may be changed.
<P><B>Questions regarding this specification:</B>
<UL>
<LI>Currently, the range index is referred to as an attribute of the palette.
I'm wondering if it makes more sense for this to be an attribute of the
dataset... If a palette is to be shared by multiple data sets and each dataset
has it's own range index mapping, then maybe one would want the index range to
be an attribute of the palette.
<LI>Should the range index be separate from the palette, or it be incorporated
into a 4 column array?
<LI>Is this method of specifying attributes satisfactory (string name
identifier with corresponding value), or should they be specified as a struct
that is read in and written out? The number of attributes is currently at 5.
</LI></UL>
<HR>
<B>Changes made since last revision</B>
<UL>
<LI>What was previously called the FLOATRANGE index array has been changed to
the RANGEINDEX array, and can be of any type, <I>preferably</I> matching that
of the data set type.
<LI>A range value min/max attribute for the color numeric may be specified.
i.e. the red component value of an RGB will be between 0 and 1.
<LI>A dataset may specify an array of palettes that it may be used with now.
previously it was just one.
<LI>CMYK and YCbCr color models have been added. </LI></UL>
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<H2>HDF 5.0 Palette Overview: </H2>
<P>HDF 5.0 adds the following new features to what existed in earlier HDF
versions:
<P>
<UL>
<LI>palettes of varying length.
<LI>definable arbitrary index range
<LI>definable color model type (RGB, YUV, HSV, CMY, etc.)
<LI>definable color numeric type </LI></UL>
<HR>
<P>A palette is the means by which color is applied to an image and is also
referred to as a color lookup table. It is a table in which every row contains
the numerical representation of a particular color. In the example of an 8-bit
standard RGB color model palette, this numerical representation of a color is
presented as a triplet specifying the intensity of red, green, and blue
components that make up each color.
<P>
<CENTER><IMG src="Palettes.fm.anc.gif"> </CENTER>
<P>In this example, the color component numeric type is an 8-bit unsigned
integer. While this is most common and recommended for general use, other
component color numeric data types, such as a 16-bit unsigned integer , may be
used. This type is specified as the type attribute of the palette dataset. (see
H5Tget_type(), H5Tset_type())
<P>The minimum and maximum values of the component color numeric are specified
as attribute of the palette dataset. See below (attributes PAL_MINNUMERIC,
PAL_MAXNUMERIC). If these attributes do not exist, it is assumed that the range
of values will fill the space of the color numeric type. i.e. with an 8-bit
unsigned integer, the valid range would be 0 to 255 for each color component.
<P>The HDF 5.0 palette specification additionally allows for color models beyond
RGB. YUV, HSV, CMY, CMYK, YCbCr color models are supported, and may be specified
as a color model attribute of the palette dataset. <I>(see "Palette Attributes"
for details)</I>.
<P>In HDF 4 and earlier, palettes were limited to 256 colors. The HDF 5.0
palette specification allows for palettes of varying length. The length is
specified as the number of rows of the palette dataset.
<P>In a standard palette, the color entries are indexed directly. HDF 5.0
supports the notion of a range index table. Such a table defines an ascending
ordered of ranges that map dataset values to the palette. If a range index table
exists for the palette, the PAL_TYPE attribute will be set to "RANGEINDEX", and
the PAL_RANGEINDEX attribute will contain an object reference to a range index
table array. If not, the PAL_TYPE attribute either does not exist, or will be
set to "STANDARD".
<P>The range index table array consists of a one dimensional array with the same
length as the palette dataset - 1. Ideally, the range index would be of the same
type as the dataset it refers to, however this is not a requirement.
<P><B>Example 2: A range index array of type floating point</B>
<P>
<CENTER><IMG src="PaletteExample1.gif"> </CENTER>
<P>The range index array attribute defines the "<I>to</I>" of the range. Notice
that the range index array attribute is one less entry in size than the palette.
The first entry of 0.1259, specifies that all values below and up to 0.1259
inclusive, will map to the first palette entry. The second entry signifies that
all values greater than 0.1259 up to 0.3278 inclusive, will map to the second
palette entry, etc. All value greater than the last range index array attribute
(100000) map to the last entry in the palette.
<P>
<HR>
<H2>Palette Attributes </H2>
<P>A palette exists in an HDF file as an independent data set with accompanying
attributes.
<P>These attributes are defined as follows:
<DL>
<DT>Attribute name="<B>CLASS</B>"
<DD>This attribute is of type H5T_STR_NULLTERM.
<DD>For all palettes, the value of this attribute is "PALETTE". This attribute
identifies this palette data set as a palette that conforms to the
specifications on this page.
<P></P>
<DT>Attribute name="<B>PAL_COLORMODEL</B>"
<DD>This attribute is of type H5T_STR_NULLTERM.
<DD>Possible values for this are "RGB", "YUV", "CMY", "HSV".
<DD>This defines the color model that the entries in the palette data set
represent.
<DL>
<DT>"RGB"
<DD>Each color index contains a triplet where the the first value defines
the red component, second defines the green component, and the third the
blue component.
<P></P>
<DT>"CMY"
<DD>Each color index contains a triplet where the the first value defines
the cyan component, second defines the magenta component, and the third the
yellow component.
<P></P>
<DT>"CMYK"
<DD>Each color index contains a quadruplet where the the first value defines
the cyan component, second defines the magenta component, the third the
yellow component, and the forth the black component.
<P></P>
<DT>"YCbCr"
<DD>Class Y encoding model. Each color index contains a triplet where the
the first value defines the luminance, second defines the Cb Chromonance,
and the third the Cr Chromonance.
<P></P>
<DT>"YUV"
<DD>Composite encoding color model. Each color index contains a triplet
where the the first value defines the luminance component, second defines
the chromonance component, and the third the value component.
<P></P>
<DT>"HSV"
<DD>Each color index contains a triplet where the the first value defines
the hue component, second defines the saturation component, and the third
the value component. The hue component defines the hue spectrum with a low
value representing magenta/red progressing to a high value which would
represent blue/magenta, passing through yellow, green, cyan. A low value for
the saturation component means less color saturation than a high value. A
low value for <I>value</I> will be darker than a high value. </DD></DL>
<P></P>
<DT>Attribute name="<B>PAL_TYPE</B>"
<DD>This attribute is of type H5T_STR_NULLTERM <BR>The current supported
values for this attribute are : "STANDARD8" or "RANGEINDEX"
<P>A PAL_TYPE of "STANDARD8" defines a palette dataset such that the first
entry defines index 0, the second entry defines index 1, etc. up until the
length of the palette - 1. This assumes an image dataset with direct indexes
into the palette.
<P>If the PAL_TYPE is set to "RANGEINDEX", there will be an additional
attribute with a name of "<B>PAL_RANGEINDEX</B>", The <B>PAL_RANGEINDEX</B>
attribute contains an HDF object reference pointer which specifies a range
index array in the file to be used for color lookups for the palette. (See
example 2 for more details)
<P></P>
<DT>Attribute name="<B>PAL_MINNUMERIC</B>"
<DT>Attribute name="<B>PAL_MAXNUMERIC</B>"
<DD>These two attributes are of the same type as the palette elements or color
numerics. <BR>They specify the minimum and maximum values of the color numeric
components. For example, if the palette was an RGB of type Float, the color
numeric range for Red, Green, and Blue could be set to be between 0.0 and 1.0.
The intensity of the color guns would then be scaled accordingly to be between
this minimum and maximum attribute. </DD></DL>
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<H2>Specifying a Palette for a Dataset </H2>
A dataset within an HDF5 file may
specify an array of palettes to be viewed with. The dataset will have an
attribute field called "<B>PALETTE</B>" which contains an array of object
reference pointers which refer to palettes in the file. The first palette in
this array will be the default palette that the data may be viewed with.
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