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colorMidi.js
// grok'd from MIDI.js
// https://github.com/mudcube/MIDI.js
/*
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MIDI.Synesthesia : 0.3.1 : 2012-01-06
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Peacock: “Instruments to perform color-music: Two centuries of technological experimentation,” Leonardo, 21 (1988), 397-406.
Gerstner: Karl Gerstner, The Forms of Color 1986
Klein: Colour-Music: The art of light, London: Crosby Lockwood and Son, 1927.
Jameson: “Visual music in a visual programming language,” IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages, 1999, 111-118.
Helmholtz: Treatise on Physiological Optics, New York: Dover Books, 1962
Jones: The art of light & color, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1972
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Reference: http://rhythmiclight.com/archives/ideas/colorscales.html
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*/
if (typeof MIDI === 'undefined') var MIDI = {};
MIDI.Synesthesia = MIDI.Synesthesia || {};
(function(root) {
root.data = {
'Isaac Newton (1704)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Gerstner, p.167',
english: ['red',null,'orange',null,'yellow','green',null,'blue',null,'indigo',null,'violet'],
0: [ 0, 96, 51 ], // C
1: [ 0, 0, 0 ], // C#
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ], // D
3: [ 0, 0, 0 ], // D#
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ], // E
5: [ 135, 76, 32 ], // F
6: [ 0, 0, 0 ], // F#
7: [ 248, 82, 28 ], // G
8: [ 0, 0, 0 ], // G#
9: [ 302, 88, 26 ], // A
10: [ 0, 0, 0 ], // A#
11: [ 325, 84, 46 ] // B
},
'Louis Bertrand Castel (1734)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Peacock, p.400',
english: ['blue','blue-green','green','olive green','yellow','yellow-orange','orange','red','crimson','violet','agate','indigo'],
0: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
1: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
2: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
3: [ 79, 59, 36 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 49, 90, 60 ],
6: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
7: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
8: [ 1, 89, 33 ],
9: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
10: [ 273, 80, 27 ],
11: [ 302, 88, 26 ]
},
'George Field (1816)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Klein, p.69',
english: ['blue',null,'purple',null,'red','orange',null,'yellow',null,'yellow green',null,'green'],
0: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
1: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
2: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
3: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
4: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
5: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
6: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
7: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
8: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
9: [ 79, 59, 36 ],
10: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
11: [ 135, 76, 32 ]
},
'D. D. Jameson (1844)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Jameson, p.12',
english: ['red','red-orange','orange','orange-yellow','yellow','green','green-blue','blue','blue-purple','purple','purple-violet','violet'],
0: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 14, 91, 51 ],
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
3: [ 49, 90, 60 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
6: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
7: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
8: [ 273, 80, 27 ],
9: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
10: [ 313, 78, 37 ],
11: [ 325, 84, 46 ]
},
'Theodor Seemann (1881)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Klein, p.86',
english: ['carmine','scarlet','orange','yellow-orange','yellow','green','green blue','blue','indigo','violet','brown','black'],
0: [ 0, 58, 26 ],
1: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
3: [ 49, 90, 60 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
6: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
7: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
8: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
9: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
10: [ 0, 58, 26 ],
11: [ 0, 0, 3 ]
},
'A. Wallace Rimington (1893)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Peacock, p.402',
english: ['deep red','crimson','orange-crimson','orange','yellow','yellow-green','green','blueish green','blue-green','indigo','deep blue','violet'],
0: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 1, 89, 33 ],
2: [ 14, 91, 51 ],
3: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 79, 59, 36 ],
6: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
7: [ 163, 62, 40 ],
8: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
9: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
10: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
11: [ 325, 84, 46 ]
},
'Bainbridge Bishop (1893)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Bishop, p.11',
english: ['red','orange-red or scarlet','orange','gold or yellow-orange','yellow or green-gold','yellow-green','green','greenish-blue or aquamarine','blue','indigo or violet-blue','violet','violet-red','red'],
0: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 1, 89, 33 ],
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
3: [ 50, 93, 52 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 73, 73, 55 ],
6: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
7: [ 163, 62, 40 ],
8: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
9: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
10: [ 343, 79, 47 ],
11: [ 360, 96, 51 ]
},
'H. von Helmholtz (1910)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Helmholtz, p.22',
english: ['yellow','green','greenish blue','cayan-blue','indigo blue','violet','end of red','red','red','red','red orange','orange'],
0: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
1: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
2: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
3: [ 211, 70, 37 ],
4: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
5: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
6: [ 330, 84, 34 ],
7: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
8: [ 10, 91, 43 ],
9: [ 10, 91, 43 ],
10: [ 8, 93, 51 ],
11: [ 28, 89, 50 ]
},
'Alexander Scriabin (1911)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Jones, p.104',
english: ['red','violet','yellow','steely with the glint of metal','pearly blue the shimmer of moonshine','dark red','bright blue','rosy orange','purple','green','steely with a glint of metal','pearly blue the shimmer of moonshine'],
0: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
2: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
3: [ 245, 21, 43 ],
4: [ 211, 70, 37 ],
5: [ 1, 89, 33 ],
6: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
7: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
8: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
9: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
10: [ 245, 21, 43 ],
11: [ 211, 70, 37 ]
},
'Adrian Bernard Klein (1930)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Klein, p.209',
english: ['dark red','red','red orange','orange','yellow','yellow green','green','blue-green','blue','blue violet','violet','dark violet'],
0: [ 0, 91, 40 ],
1: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
2: [ 14, 91, 51 ],
3: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 73, 73, 55 ],
6: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
7: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
8: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
9: [ 292, 70, 31 ],
10: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
11: [ 330, 84, 34 ]
},
'August Aeppli (1940)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Gerstner, p.169',
english: ['red',null,'orange',null,'yellow',null,'green','blue-green',null,'ultramarine blue','violet','purple'],
0: [ 0, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
3: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
6: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
7: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
8: [ 0, 0, 0 ],
9: [ 211, 70, 37 ],
10: [ 273, 80, 27 ],
11: [ 302, 88, 26 ]
},
'I. J. Belmont (1944)': {
ref: 'Belmont, p.226',
english: ['red','red-orange','orange','yellow-orange','yellow','yellow-green','green','blue-green','blue','blue-violet','violet','red-violet'],
0: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
1: [ 14, 91, 51 ],
2: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
3: [ 50, 93, 52 ],
4: [ 60, 90, 60 ],
5: [ 73, 73, 55 ],
6: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
7: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
8: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
9: [ 313, 78, 37 ],
10: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
11: [ 338, 85, 37 ]
},
'Steve Zieverink (2004)': {
format: 'HSL',
ref: 'Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center',
english: ['yellow-green','green','blue-green','blue','indigo','violet','ultra violet','infra red','red','orange','yellow-white','yellow'],
0: [ 73, 73, 55 ],
1: [ 135, 76, 32 ],
2: [ 172, 68, 34 ],
3: [ 248, 82, 28 ],
4: [ 302, 88, 26 ],
5: [ 325, 84, 46 ],
6: [ 326, 79, 24 ],
7: [ 1, 89, 33 ],
8: [ 360, 96, 51 ],
9: [ 29, 94, 52 ],
10: [ 62, 78, 74 ],
11: [ 60, 90, 60 ]
},
'Circle of Fifths (Johnston 2003)': {
format: 'RGB',
ref: 'Joseph Johnston',
english: ['yellow', 'blue', 'orange', 'teal', 'red', 'green', 'purple', 'light orange', 'light blue', 'dark orange', 'dark green', 'violet' ],
0: [ 255, 255, 0 ],
1: [ 50, 0, 255 ],
2: [ 255, 150, 0 ],
3: [ 0, 210, 180 ],
4: [ 255, 0, 0 ],
5: [ 130, 255, 0 ],
6: [ 150, 0, 200 ],
7: [ 255, 195, 0 ],
8: [ 30, 130, 255 ],
9: [ 255, 100, 0 ],
10: [ 0, 200, 0 ],
11: [ 225, 0, 225 ]
},
'Circle of Fifths (Wheatman 2002)': {
format: 'HEX',
ref: 'Stuart Wheatman', // http://www.valleysfamilychurch.org/
english: [],
data: ['#122400', '#2E002E', '#002914', '#470000', '#002142', '#2E2E00', '#290052', '#003D00', '#520029', '#003D3D', '#522900', '#000080', '#244700', '#570057', '#004D26', '#7A0000', '#003B75', '#4C4D00', '#47008F', '#006100', '#850042', '#005C5C', '#804000', '#0000C7', '#366B00', '#80007F', '#00753B', '#B80000', '#0057AD', '#6B6B00', '#6600CC', '#008A00', '#B8005C', '#007F80', '#B35900', '#2424FF', '#478F00', '#AD00AD', '#00994D', '#F00000', '#0073E6', '#8F8F00', '#8A14FF', '#00AD00', '#EB0075', '#00A3A3', '#E07000', '#6B6BFF', '#5CB800', '#DB00DB', '#00C261', '#FF5757', '#3399FF', '#ADAD00', '#B56BFF', '#00D600', '#FF57AB', '#00C7C7', '#FF9124', '#9999FF', '#6EDB00', '#FF29FF', '#00E070', '#FF9999', '#7ABDFF', '#D1D100', '#D1A3FF', '#00FA00', '#FFA3D1', '#00E5E6', '#FFC285', '#C2C2FF', '#80FF00', '#FFA8FF', '#00E070', '#FFCCCC', '#C2E0FF', '#F0F000', '#EBD6FF', '#ADFFAD', '#FFD6EB', '#8AFFFF', '#FFEBD6', '#EBEBFF', '#E0FFC2', '#FFEBFF', '#E5FFF2', '#FFF5F5'] }
};
root.map = function(type) {
var data = {};
var blend = function(a, b) {
return [ // blend two colors and round results
(a[0] * 0.5 + b[0] * 0.5 + 0.5) >> 0,
(a[1] * 0.5 + b[1] * 0.5 + 0.5) >> 0,
(a[2] * 0.5 + b[2] * 0.5 + 0.5) >> 0
];
};
///
var syn = root.data;
var colors = syn[type] || syn['D. D. Jameson (1844)'];
for (var note = 0, pclr, H, S, L; note <= 88; note ++) { // creates mapping for 88 notes
if (colors.data) {
data[note] = {
hsl: colors.data[note],
hex: colors.data[note]
};
} else {
var clr = colors[(note + 9) % 12];
///
switch(colors.format) {
case 'RGB':
clr = Color.Space(clr, 'RGB>HSL');
H = clr.H >> 0;
S = clr.S >> 0;
L = clr.L >> 0;
break;
case 'HSL':
H = clr[0];
S = clr[1];
L = clr[2];
break;
}
///
if (H === S && S === L) { // note color is unset
clr = blend(pclr, colors[(note + 10) % 12]);
}
///
// var amount = L / 10;
// var octave = note / 12 >> 0;
// var octaveLum = L + amount * octave - 3.0 * amount; // map luminance to octave
///
data[note] = {
hsl: 'hsla(' + H + ',' + S + '%,' + L + '%, 1)',
hex: Color.Space({H: H, S: S, L: L}, 'HSL>RGB>HEX>W3')
};
///
pclr = clr;
}
}
return data;
};
})(MIDI.Synesthesia);
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