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BrightenColor

Function BrightenColor - Brighten or darken a RGB color

Calling Sequence  BrightenColor(color)
BrightenColor(color,beta)
Parameters
NameTypeDescription

color list(nonnegative)a RGB color
beta numeric(optional) amount of increase/decrease in brightness
Return Type  [nonnegative, nonnegative, nonnegative]
Synopsis BrightenColor increases or decreases the color intensity. If 0 < beta < 1, the color gets brighter and if -1 < beta < 0 the color gets darker. The operation is not necessarily reversable (see example). The default value for beta is 0.3
Examples
> BrightenColor([1,0,0]);
[1, 0.3000, 0.3000]
> BrightenColor([0.5,0.5,0.5], -.2);
[0.3000, 0.2400, 0.2400]
> BrightenColor(BrightenColor([0.3,0.5,0.9],-0.4),0.4);
[0.3600, 0.5400, 0.9000]
See also ColorPalette,   DrawDistribution,   DrawDotplot,   DrawGraph,   DrawHistogram,   DrawPlot,   DrawPointDistribution,   DrawStackedBar,   DrawTree,   GetColorMap,   Plot2Gif,   PlotArguments,   Set,   SmoothData,   StartOverlayPlot,   StopOverlayPlot,   ViewPlot