iOS Find Color at Point Between Two Colors

Question

I have a problem: I need to be able to take two colors and make a \'virtual gradient\' out of them. I then need to be able to find the color at any point on this line. My cu

Answer 1

The problem is that you're not subtracting kBottomThreshold from farenheit.

But let's simplify.

First, we want to map the input temperature to a parameter t in the range [0 ... 1]. Then, we want to map t to an output in the range [kBottomR ... kTopR], and also to an output in the range [kBottomG ... kTopG], and also to an output in the range [kBottomB ... kTopB].

UIColor *colorForDegreesFahrenheit(double fahrenheit) {
    double t = (fahrenheit - kBottomThreshold) / (kTopThreshold - kBottomThreshold);

    // Clamp t to the range [0 ... 1].
    t = MAX(0.0, MIN(t, 1.0));

    double r = kBottomR + t * (kTopR - kBottomR);
    double g = kBottomG + t * (kTopG - kBottomG);
    double b = kBottomB + t * (kTopB - kBottomB);

    return [UIColor colorWithRed:r/255 green:g/255 blue:b/255 alpha:1];
}