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# GAMMA
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Arduino Library for the GAMMA function to adjust brightness of LED's etc.
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## Description
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This library is provides a gamma lookup class. It is typical used to
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change the intensity / brightness of a LED to match the human eye.
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When a LED is given 50% PWM it looks far brighter for the eye.
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This lib provides a balance between an expensive math function and the speed
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of a lookup table.
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The accuracy of the library depends on the size of the internal array.
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A size of 256 is the reference. Smaller arrays use interpolation and
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these interpolated values are good (< 1%) down to internal array size 16.
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The size can be as small as 2 which is pretty inaccurate.
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In this latter case the curve is approximated by only two linear interpolations.
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In short, choose the size that fits your application.
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The library has a **setGamma(float gamma)** function that allows an application
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to change the gamma value runtime.
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This allows adjustments that are not possible with a fixed table.
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The class provides **dump()** to create a table e.g. to place in PROGMEM.
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Since 0.2.2 the library also has **dumpArray()** to generate a C-style array.
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Note: tested on UNO and ESP32 only.
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## Interface
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### Core functions
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- **GAMMA(uint16_t size = 32)** constructor, gets the size of the internal
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array as parameter. The default for size = 32 as this is a good balance between performance
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and size of the internal array.
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The size parameter must be in {2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 }.
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- **~GAMMA()** destructor.
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- **bool begin()** The internal array is allocated and initialized with a gamma == 2.8.
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This is an often used value to adjust light to human eye responses.
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Note that **begin()** must be called before any other function.
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Returns false if allocation fails.
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- **void setGamma(float gamma)** calculates and fills the array with new values.
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This can be done runtime so runtime adjustment of gamma mapping is possible.
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This calculation are relative expensive and takes quite some time (depending on size).
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If the array already is calculated for gamma, the calculation will be skipped.
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The parameter **gamma** must be > 0. The value 1 gives an 1:1 mapping.
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Returns false if gamma <= 0 or if no table is allocated.
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- **float getGamma()** returns the set gamma value.
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- **uint8_t operator \[uint8_t index\]** allows the GAMMA object to be accessed as an array.
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like ```x = G[40];``` Makes it easy to switch with a real array.
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The value returned is in the range 0 .. 255, so the user may need to scale it e.g. to 0.0 - 1.0.
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Note: if internal table not allocated the function returns 0.
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As this is a legitimate value the user should take care.
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### Development functions
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- **uint16_t size()** returns size of the internal array.
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This is always a power of 2.
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- **uint16_t distinct()** returns the number of distinct values in the table.
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Especially with larger internal tables there will be duplicate numbers in the table.
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- **bool dump(Stream \*str = &Serial)** dumps the internal table to a stream, default Serial.
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Useful to create an array in RAM, PROGMEM, EEPROM, in a file or wherever.
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Returns false if no table is allocated.
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- **void dumpArray(Stream \*str = &Serial)** dumps the internal table to a stream, default Serial, as a C-style array. See example.
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Returns false if no table is allocated.
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## Operation
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See example.
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## Future ideas
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#### must
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- improve documentation
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#### should
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- test other platforms
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- look for optimizations
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- getter \[\]
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- setGamma -> pow() is expensive
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#### could
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- uint16 version?
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- GAMMA16, GAMMA32,
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- GAMMA_RGB ?
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