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1 | | -**Gradient Designer** |
| 1 | +Gradient Designer: |
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3 | 3 | [](https://zenodo.org/badge/latestdoi/194572076) |
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6 | | -[](https://vimeo.com/366616654) |
| 6 | +[](https://vimeo.com/366616654) |
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9 | | -**Gradient Designer** (GD)is an interactive gradient design and colour mapping application for geoscientific data on the MacOS platform. |
| 9 | +**Gradient Designer** (GD)is an interactive gradient design and colour mapping application for geoscientific data on the MacOS platform. |
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11 | 11 | It is intended for designing colourmaps for continuous data, such as global seismic data. |
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44 | 44 | **GD** and its companion apps aim to provide an intuitive interface for a range of colour-mapping tasks. |
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46 | | -It is agnostic about the nature of the incoming data: the assumption is that data has been pre-processed into whole-globe equirectangular 8-bit RGB JPEG or PNG black and white images, with known data ranges (where 0-255 represent known minima and maxima, linearly mapped to the underlying data, including alpha channel data if desired). |
| 46 | +It is agnostic about the nature of the incoming data: the assumption is that data has been pre-processed into whole-globe equirectangular 8-bit RGB JPEG or PNG black and white images, with known data ranges (where 0-255 represent known minima and maxima, linearly mapped to the underlying data, including alpha channel data if desired). |
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48 | | -The application is programmed in the MacOS **Quartz Composer (QC)** [link][https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartz/quartz_composer] VPL, using a mixture of pre-defined QC processing nodes as well as custom routines programmed in Objective-C, Javascript, OpenCL and OpenGL. |
| 48 | +The application is programmed in the MacOS **Quartz Composer (QC)** [link][https://developer.apple.com/documentation/quartz/quartz_composer] VPL, using a mixture of pre-defined QC processing nodes as well as custom routines programmed in Objective-C, Javascript, OpenCL and OpenGL. |
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51 | 51 | **Limitations** |
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53 | 53 | The software targets average color perception and does not currently compensate for users with color vision deficiencies. |
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55 | | -GD and companion apps have been compiled into a stand-alone applications using Kineme QuartzBuilder and Apple Xcode 10.1, targeting **MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) and MacOS 10.14 (Mojave). |
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57 | | -As of MacOS 10.14 OpenGL has been deprecated: future iterations of the software may require porting to Metal or platforms supporting OpenGL compatibility profiles. |
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| 55 | +GD and companion apps have been compiled into a stand-alone applications using Kineme QuartzBuilder and Apple Xcode 10.1, targeting **MacOS 10.13.6 (High Sierra) and MacOS 10.14 (Mojave). |
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| 57 | +As of MacOS 10.14 OpenGL has been deprecated: future iterations of the software may require porting to Metal or platforms supporting OpenGL compatibility profiles. |
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