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RGBWLED

It is a part of kch-rgbw-lib. See README.md for general information.

Code snippet

In TypeScript/ES2015:

import { RGBWLED, makeGamutContour } from 'kch-rgbw-lib';

API

Class and members

export interface IRGBWLED {
  name: string;
  readonly color: CSpace;
  brightness: number; // [0,1]
  readonly maxLuminance: number;  // Sum of maxLuminance of all component LEDs
  readonly LED: LEDChip[]; // Component LEDs
  readonly nLED: number;
}

export class RGBWLED extends CSpaceR implements IRGBWLED;

Class RGBWLED represents a composite LED with at least 3 different colors of component LEDs.

Although the name of the class may imply that it has R-G-B-W 4 LEDs, RGBWLED can have any number of component LEDs from 3 different colors. It is possible to have some of component LEDs with a same color. Component LEDs are stored as an array.

For more than 5 component LEDs we need to solve it using linear programming (LP). Since LP is a heavy computation, operations that involve LP are asynchronous. Asynchronous functions are suffixed ...Async().

Luminance and brightness

Relation of brightness and maxLuminance and the current luminance is (luminance) = brightness * maxLuminance.

In case of composite LED, maxLuminance does not mean possible largest luminance at any color in the gamut, because component LEDs do not necessarily have uniform luminance distribution across the gamut. maxLuminance is achieved only when all component LEDs turn on at full brightness. Color-dependent maximum luminance is obtained by getMaxLuminanceAt().

Therefore, brightness cannot reach to 1 in most of colors.

Alpha

Some member functions of RGBWLED use alpha: number[] as in/output. alpha[] is a set of brightness of each component LED. Therefor length of alpha[] should always match to number of component LEDs.

Gamut contour

Range of color represented by a set of color source is called (color) gamut. RGBWLED assumes there are at least three different colors that forms a triangle gamut. By adding color sources, the gamut can be extended. RGBWLED maintains an array of component LEDs that form the gamut, gamut contour.

You can construct a gamut contour using makeGamutContour().

To test if a color is within the gamut, you can use isInGamut(c: CSpace). You can fit a color inside the gamut contour using fit2Gamut(c: CSpace). About those functions, see WaveLength.md.

Constructors

new RGBWLED(name: string, lList: LEDChip[])

A new RGBWLED from an array of component LEDChip. lList is shallow-copied. If number of component LEDs or number of different colors is less than 3, it throws an exception. Due to limitation of solver, some node/C++ environment has limitation of number of component LEDs less than 5.

After initialization, RGBWLED is turned off (all component LEDs off) while its color is set to 'all LED on'. Before using RGBWLED you must set an initial color using setColorAsync() or setAlpha().

Getter

.color: CSpace

Return the current composite color.

.brightness: number

Return the current brightness.

.maxLuminance: number

Return the maximum luminance obtained when turning on all LEDs.

.LED: LEDChip[]

Return the array of component LEDs. Modifying LEDChip in this array will result in unexpected behavior.

Setter

.brightness: number

Set brightness. Resulting brightness may be less that the input, when it is saturated.

Member functions that changes the state of RGBWLED

setColorAsync(c: CSpace): Promise<void>

Set the color of RGBWLED to the given color c. If c is not inside the gamut defined by this RGBWLED, it is fit into the gamut.

If type of c is 'xyY' or 'XYZ', the Y component of c is used as the new luminance. In other cases, it maintains the current luminance. Depending on the new color to represent and its maximum luminance, the resulting luminance can be darker than input.

setAlpha(alpha: number[]): void

Set the color of RGBWLED using the given alpha[] as the brightness of component LEDs. It checks the brightness is in range of [0,1], limits to 0 or 1 when exceeding [0, 1]. alpha.length should match the number of component LEDs, that is RGBWLED.LED.length. Otherwise it throws an exception.

setLuminanceAsync(Y: number): Promise<number>

Set the luminance of RGBWLED. It maintains the current color. It returns the resulting luminance. Depending on the maximum possible luminance at the color, the resulting luminance can be darker than input Y.

push(l: LEDChip): void

Push (append) the given l to the list of component LEDs. After pushing l, the state of l is 'off' (unused) until next setColorAsync() call.

Member functions that do not change the state of RGBWLED

maxLuminanceAtAsync(c: CSpace): Promise<number>

maxBrightnessAtAsync(c: CSpace): Promise<number>

Returns the maximum possible luminance / brightness that can be achieved at the given color c. If c is outside the gamut defined by this RGBWLED, they return -1.

alpha2Color(alpha: number[]): CSpace

Return the composite color as a mixture of component LEDs those brightness is in alpha. It does not check the brightness is in range of [0,1]. alpha.length should match the number of component LEDs, that is RGBWLED.LED.length. Otherwise it throws an exception. Returned CSpace is in 'xyY' type.

color2AlphaAsync(c: CSpace): Promise<number[]>

Return an array of brightness of each component LED for the given color c. It does not check c is within the gamut. If it is outside the gamut, some values in the return array will be negative. c can be in any color space except 'xy'.

isInGamut(c: CSpace): boolean

Examine if the given color c is inside the gamut defined by this RGBWLED. It theoretically returns true if c is on the border of the gamut, however numerical error can affect the result.

fit2Gamut(c: CSpace): CSpace

Examine if the given c is inside the gamut defined by this RGBWLED. If not, c is projected to the nearest point on the gamut. It returns c or projected c.

Static member function

static maxLEDNumber: number

Possible maximum number of component LEDs under the current installation. It is a restriction of linear-program-solver, that requires newer node versions and C++-17 compiler.

You should check if number of component LEDs to set RGBWLED class not exceeding this number.

Related Functions

These functions are not members of RGBWLED.

async function parseJSONFileAsync(filename: string): Promise<RGBWLED>

Parse a given JSON format file and generate an RGBWLED.

async function parseJSONStringAsync(str: string): Promise<RGBWLED>

Parse a given JSON format string and generate an RGBWLED.

async function parseRGBWLEDAsync(obj: any, sourceLEDs: LEDChip[]): Promise<RGBWLED>

Parse and generate an RGBWLED. These are part of JSON object parser.

See Parse.md for more information.

function makeGamutContour(cList: CSpace[]): CSpace[]

Returns a list of CSpace that forms the gamut contour. cList is a list of CSpace. Gamut contour is the outermost polygon made by colors in cList. You need to provide at least 3 different colors in cList. Order of colors does not matter.

Returned array has the first color at the end of array so that it can be used by xyFit2Gamut() and xyIsInGamut().

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) K. Chinzei (kchinzei@gmail.com) Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.