function colorscale(hexstr, scalefactor) {
/* declared variables first, in order;
afterwards, undeclared local variables */
var r = scalefactor;
var a, i;
if (r < 0 || typeof(hexstr) != 'string')
return hexstr;
hexstr = hexstr.replace(/[^0-9a-f]+/ig, '');
if (hexstr.length == 3) {
a = hexstr.split('');
} else if (hexstr.length == 6) {
a = hexstr.match(/(\w{2})/g);
} else
return hexstr;
for (i=0; i<a.length; i++) {
if (a[i].length == 2)
a[i] = parseInt(a[i], 16);
else {
a[i] = parseInt(a[i], 16);
a[i] = a[i]*16 + a[i];
}
}
var maxColor = parseInt('ff', 16);
function relsize(a) {
if (a == maxColor)
return Infinity;
return a/(maxColor-a);
}
function relsizeinv(y) {
if (y == Infinity)
return maxColor;
return maxColor*y/(1+y);
}
for (i=0; i<a.length; i++) {
a[i] = relsizeinv(relsize(a[i])*r);
a[i] = Math.floor(a[i]).toString(16);
if (a[i].length == 1)
a[i] = '0' + a[i];
}
return a.join('');
}
d = document;
function showRainbowRow(hex3) {
var i;
for (i=0; i<256; i++)
d.write('<td width="10" height="50" style="background: #', colorscale(hex3, i/(256-i)), '"></td>');
}