name2rgb

Arguments

name

name of the color or matrix with names of the colors.

rgb

vector or matrix with 3 columns of RGB integer values of the colors.

Description

name2rgb returns the RGB values of a color given by its name. The result is a vector or a matrix with 3 columns [r,g,b] where r, g and b are integers between 0 and 255 corresponding to colors components red, green and blue. As usual 0 means no intensity and 255 means all the intensity of the color.

If no color is found [] is returned.

The list of all known colors is given by color_list.

Examples

rgb=name2rgb("gold")
rgb2name(rgb)

See also

• color — returns the color id of a color
• color_list — liste des noms de couleurs prédéfinies
• rgb2name — returns the name of a color

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