ColorMap in iPhone Core Graphics?

Question

Hey guys!

I have a monochrome image with 256 levels of grayscale. I want to map each level to a specific color and apply to the image to get a colored image as a result. How can I do it?

To be more precise here is the pair in Java 2D API that I need to find replacement for:

• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/image/LookupOp.html
• http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/image/LookupTable.html

And here is the instruction of how it works in Java. I need to build the same under iPhone.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Looks to me like the kind of thing you'd want to do in a core image filter:

http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/GraphicsImaging/Reference/CoreImageFilterReference/Reference/reference.html

If there isn't a suitable one already there, it wouldn't be very tricky to write.