Scale numbers to be <= 255?

Question

I have cells for whom the numeric value can be anything between 0 and Integer.MAX_VALUE. I would like to color code these cells correspondingly.

If the val

Answer 1

Note that if you want brighter and brighter, that luminosity is not linear so a straight mapping from value to color will not give a good result.

The Color class has a method to make a brighter color. Have a look at that.