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 RainbowHighlight

Source Notebook

Make your text legendary by dynamically scrolling the colors of the rainbow

Contributed by: Sander Huisman

ResourceFunction["RainbowHighlight"]["text"]

shows the string "text" with moving rainbow colors.

ResourceFunction["RainbowHighlight"]["text",cf]

use the color function cf.

Details

The color function cf can be a function or a string. For the case of a string, ColorData[cf] is used as the color function.

Examples

Basic Examples

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ResourceFunction[ "RainbowHighlight"]["This is an example of RainbowHighlight"]
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Scope (2) 

Use an arbitrary color function:

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ResourceFunction[ "RainbowHighlight"]["With some other colors\[Ellipsis]", RGBColor[0.5 + 0.5 Sin[2 Pi #], 0.5 + 0.5 Cos[2 Pi # + 0.4], 0] &]
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Use a named color scheme:

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ResourceFunction[ "RainbowHighlight"]["With some other colors\[Ellipsis]", "Rainbow"]
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Properties and Relations (1) 

Compare the animated highlighting produced by RainbowHighlight with the static highlighting of the resource function RainbowText:

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Column[{ResourceFunction["RainbowHighlight"][ "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"], ResourceFunction["RainbowText"][ "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious"]}]
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Neat Examples (1) 

Make a bird say a bobbing scrolling rainbow-colored message:

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ResourceFunction["BirdSay"][ ResourceFunction["Bob"]@ ResourceFunction["RainbowHighlight"]["This is awesome!", "Rainbow"]]
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Publisher

SHuisman

Version History

  • 1.0.0 – 21 April 2023

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