Tintin Colour Palettes

A wrapper function around Tintin_clrs to turn it into a palette function compatible with discrete_scale.

tintin_pal(
  alpha = 1,
  begin = 0,
  end = 1,
  direction = 1,
  option = "the_blue_lotus"
)

Arguments

alpha

The alpha transparency, a number in [0,1], see argument alpha in hsv.

begin

The (corrected) hue in [0,1] at which the color map begins.

end

The (corrected) hue in [0,1] at which the color map ends.

direction

Sets the order of colors in the scale. If 1, the default, colors are ordered from darkest to lightest. If -1, the order of colors is reversed.

option

A character string indicating the color map option to use. Options are available:

  • "Tintin in the Land of the Soviets"

  • "Tintin in the Congo"

  • "Tintin in America"

  • "Cigars of the Pharaoh"

  • "The Blue Lotus" (Standard)

  • "The Broken Ear"

  • "The Black Island"

  • "King Ottokar's Sceptre"

  • "The Crab with the Golden Claws"

  • "The Shooting Star"

  • "The Secret of the Unicorn"

  • "Red Rackham's Treasure"

  • "The Seven Crystal Balls"

  • "Prisoners of the Sun"

  • "Land of Black Gold"

  • "Destination Moon"

  • "Explorers on the Moon"

  • "The Calculus Affair"

  • "The Red Sea Sharks"

  • "Tintin in Tibet"

  • "The Castafiore Emerald"

  • "Flight 714 to Sydney"

  • "Tintin and the Picaros"

  • "Tintin and Alph-Art"

Value

A function that takes an integer argument and returns a character vector of colors.

Details

See Tintin_clrs for more information on the color palettes.

Examples

tintin_pal()
#> function (n) 
#> {
#>     tintin_clrs(n, alpha, begin, end, direction, option)
#> }
#> <bytecode: 0x6488548c8b88>
#> <environment: 0x6488571e4958>

scales::show_col(tintin_pal()(5))