lutgen-rs

lutgen-rs

A blazingly fast interpolated LUT utility for arbitrary and popular color palettes. Theme any image to your desktop colorscheme!

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Example Output

Hald Cluts

Catppuccin Mocha

Gruvbox Dark

Nord

Color Corrections

Original Image

Catppuccin Mocha

Gruvbox Dark

Nord

Lutgen CLI

Package Repositories

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs
cd lutgen-rs
cargo install --path crates/cli

Crates.io

cargo install lutgen-cli

Documentation

Detailed documentation, examples, and more are available on The Lutgen Wiki

Lutgen Studio

Package Repositories

Required Dependencies

(For this example, Ubuntu packages are listed)

• libxcb-render0-dev
• libxcb-shape0-dev
• libxcb-xfixes0-dev
• libxkbcommon-dev
• libssl-dev
• wayland

Install from source

git clone https://github.com/ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs
cd lutgen-rs
cargo install --path crates/studio

Crates.io

cargo install lutgen-studio

Rust Library

See the latest rust documentation on docs.rs/lutgen

Nix flake

A nix flake is available providing both lutgen and lutgen-studio packages. The flake can be easily run via:

nix run github:ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs
nix run github:ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs#lutgen-studio

Cache is provided via https://garnix.io

Development Shell

A development environment is also provided in the flake:

git clone https://github.com/ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs
cd lutgen-rs
nix develop

# inside dev shell
cargo run -r --bin lutgen
cargo run -r --bin lutgen-studio

Planned features

• Interpolation for more accuracy when correcting with low level luts (<16)
• Hardware acceleration for applying luts to images

Sources

• Hald Cluts: https://www.quelsolaar.com/technology/clut.html
• Editing with Hald Cluts: https://im.snibgo.com/edithald.htm
• Sparse Hald Cluts: https://im.snibgo.com/sphaldcl.htm
• RBF Interpolation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_basis_function_interpolation
• Shepard's method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_distance_weighting
• Oklab Colorspace: https://bottosson.github.io/posts/oklab/

Special Thanks

• Gingeh for the initial inspiration and imagemagick approach
• The Catppuccin Org for continual feedback and support along the way
• Stonks3141 for maintaining the Alpine Linux package
• All the nixpkgs maintainers