This directory contains a collection of lookup tables compiled from various sources. The origin of most of these was Klaus Banse of the MIDAS project. The ultimate source of many of the tables is unknown. To have the colortables in this directory loaded automatically by Ximtool install them in the directory /usr/local/lib/imtoolcmap/ Or, to load colortables from a custom directory set the cmapDir1 or cmapDir2 ximtool resource to the pathname of the directory containing the tables. The format of a user lookup table is very simple: each row defines one colortable entry, and consists of three columns defining the red, green, and blue values scaled to the range 0.0 (off) to 1.0 (full intensity). R G B R G B (etc.) Blank lines and comment lines (# ...) are ignored. Usually 256 rows are provided, but the number may actually be anything in the range 1 to 256. Ximtool will interpolate the table as necessary to compute the colortable values used in Ximtool. Ximtool uses only 201 colors to render pixel data, so it is usually necessary to interpolate the table when it is loaded. Tables are loaded into Ximtool by setting one of the user colormap directory resources. When Ximtool starts up it will read all the files in the colormap directory, disregarding any files that are unreadable or that do not appear to be colortables. The name of the colortable as it will appear in the Ximtool control panel is the root name of the file, e.g., if the file is "rainbow.lut" the colortable name will be "rainbow". Lower case names are suggested to avoid name collisions with the builtin colortables. If the same colortable file appears in multiple user colortable directories, the first one will be used.