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

Here's one I like to use (the output is an HTML RGB color):

public static String Rainbow(Int32 numOfSteps, Int32 step)
        {
            var r = 0.0;
            var g = 0.0;
            var b = 0.0;
            var h = (Double)step / numOfSteps;
            var i = (Int32)(h * 6);
            var f = h * 6.0 - i;
            var q = 1 - f;

            switch (i % 6)
            {
                case 0:
                    r = 1;
                    g = f;
                    b = 0;
                    break;
                case 1:
                    r = q;
                    g = 1;
                    b = 0;
                    break;
                case 2:
                    r = 0;
                    g = 1;
                    b = f;
                    break;
                case 3:
                    r = 0;
                    g = q;
                    b = 1;
                    break;
                case 4:
                    r = f;
                    g = 0;
                    b = 1;
                    break;
                case 5:
                    r = 1;
                    g = 0;
                    b = q;
                    break;
            }
            return "#" + ((Int32)(r * 255)).ToString("X2") + ((Int32)(g * 255)).ToString("X2") + ((Int32)(b * 255)).ToString("X2");
        }