How do I get a rainbow color gradient in C#?

Question

I\'d like to have an enumeration of Colors based on the rainbow colors (red... yellow... green... blue...).

I see basically two ways to do that:

1. Cre

Answer 1

I like to use this:

public static Color Rainbow(float progress)
{
    float div = (Math.Abs(progress % 1) * 6);
    int ascending = (int) ((div % 1) * 255);
    int descending = 255 - ascending;

    switch ((int) div)
    {
        case 0:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, 255, ascending, 0);
        case 1:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, descending, 255, 0);
        case 2:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, 0, 255, ascending);
        case 3:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, 0, descending, 255);
        case 4:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, ascending, 0, 255);
        default: // case 5:
            return Color.FromArgb(255, 255, 0, descending);
    }
}