# lutgen-rs

**Repository Path**: gislite/lutgen-rs

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: lutgen-rs
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: main
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2026-03-18
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-18

## Categories & Tags

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## README

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    <div align="center">
        <img width="30%" src="https://github.com/ozwaldorf/lutgen-rs/assets/8976745/4163e179-ee73-4b24-8ad8-6c373e1d8711" />
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    <h2 align="center">lutgen-rs</h2>
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        <a href="https://crates.io/crates/lutgen-cli"><img alt="crate" src="https://img.shields.io/crates/v/lutgen-cli?label=cli&style=for-the-badge" /></a>
        <a href="https://crates.io/crates/lutgen-studio"><img alt="crate" src="https://img.shields.io/crates/v/lutgen-studio?label=studio&style=for-the-badge" /></a>
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    <p align="center">
        A blazingly fast interpolated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_lookup_table">LUT</a> utility for arbitrary and popular color palettes. Theme any image to your desktop colorscheme!
    </p>
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## Example Output

### Hald Cluts

<details>
    <summary>Catppuccin Mocha</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/catppuccin-mocha-hald-clut.png" />
</details>
<details>
    <summary>Gruvbox Dark</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/gruvbox-dark-hald-clut.png" />
</details>
<details>
    <summary>Nord</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/nord-hald-clut.png" />
</details>

### Color Corrections

<details>
    <summary>Original Image</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/example-image.jpg" />
</details>
<details>
    <summary>Catppuccin Mocha</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/catppuccin-mocha.jpg" />
</details>
<details>
    <summary>Gruvbox Dark</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/gruvbox-dark.jpg" />
</details>
<details>
    <summary>Nord</summary>
    <img src="docs/assets/nord.png" />
</details>

## Lutgen CLI

### Package Repositories

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/lutgen.svg?exclude_unsupported=1)](https://repology.org/project/lutgen/versions)

### Install from source

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

### Crates.io

```bash
cargo install lutgen-cli
```

### Documentation

Detailed documentation, examples, and more are available on [The Lutgen Wiki](https://ozwaldorf.github.io/lutgen-rs)

## Lutgen Studio

<img width="66%" alt="Lutgen Studio" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/436ece7a-b59f-404d-a6d6-6c0e754355f2" />

### Package Repositories

[![Packaging status](https://repology.org/badge/vertical-allrepos/lutgen-studio.svg?exclude_unsupported=1)](https://repology.org/project/lutgen-studio/versions)

### 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

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

### Crates.io

```bash
cargo install lutgen-studio
```

## Rust Library

See the latest rust documentation on [docs.rs/lutgen](https://docs.rs/lutgen)

## Nix flake

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

```bash
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:

```bash
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](https://github.com/Gingeh) for the initial inspiration and imagemagick approach
- [The Catppuccin Org](https://github.com/catppuccin) for continual feedback and support along the way
- [Stonks3141](https://github.com/Stonks3141) for maintaining the Alpine Linux package
- All the nixpkgs maintainers