/// <summary>
/// Gets the brush to be used for drawing a specific field for the given model
/// </summary>
/// <param name="m">the current model instance</param>
/// <param name="i">the fields i position</param>
/// <param name="j">the fields j position</param>
/// <param name="fc">the specified field color</param>
/// <param name="bgCol">the specified background color</param>
/// <param name="fancy">flag whether to use color gradients</param>
/// <param name="random">glag whether to use random coloring</param>
/// <param name="showProfile">flag whether to show the profile information instead
/// of whether cells are currently dead or animate</param>
/// <returns></returns>
private Brush GetBrush(GameOfLife m, int i, int j, Color fc, Color bgCol, bool fancy, bool random, bool showProfile)
{
Brush b;
// should we display the profile?
if (showProfile)
{
// we had one visit at least for the current cell
if (m.Profile[i, j] > 0)
{
int v = Math.Min(m.Profile[i, j], 255);
b = new SolidBrush(Color.FromArgb(v, 255 - v, 0));
}
else
{
// no visit yet, draw bgColor
b = new SolidBrush(bgCol);
}
}
else
{
// draw the currently living cells in the colors
// specified by the options
bool v = m.Envir[i, j];
if (v)
{
Color c = fc;
// if we use fancy/gradient coloring, use color depending on
// number of neighbouring living fields
if (fancy)
{
int[] n = m.GetNeighbourhood(i, j);
int sum = 0;
for (int z = 0; z < n.Length; z++)
{
sum += n[z];
}
c = ControlPaint.Light(fc, 1 - (sum * 1.0f) / n.Length);
}
// supercedes fancy/gradient coloring
if (random)
{
if (this.controller.StaticRandomColors)
{
c = this.controller.RandomFieldColors[i, j];
}
else
{
// create a random color
c = Color.FromArgb(Controller.RNG.Next(256),
Controller.RNG.Next(256),
Controller.RNG.Next(256));
}
}
b = new SolidBrush(c);
}
else
{
b = new SolidBrush(bgCol);
}
}
return(b);
}
