ozwaldorf
lutgen-rs
Rust

Blazingly fast interpolated LUT generator and applicator for arbitrary and popular color palettes.

Last updated Jul 5, 2026
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lutgen-rs

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


Example Output

Hald Cluts

Catppuccin Mocha
Gruvbox Dark
Nord

Color Corrections

Original Image
Catppuccin Mocha
Gruvbox Dark
Nord

Lutgen CLI

Package Repositories

Packaging status

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

Lutgen Studio

Package Repositories

Packaging status

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/Radialbasisfunction_interpolation
  • Shepard's method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversedistanceweighting
  • 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
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