Pain Scale

see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain_scale

You may use the painscale icons below under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0

The idea of the above pain scale icons is to generate them programmatically to give a proportional expression in terms of color and mouth expression. The following script creates the above icons:

generate pain scale icons

#!/bin/bash
# WF 2021-08-04
#
# create 0-10 painscale svg images
#
# (c) Copyright 2021 Wolfgang Fahl
# see  http://wiki.bitplan.com/index.php/Pain_Scale
#
onepain() {
  local l_color="$1"
  # mouth y position
  local l_mouthy="$2"
  # mouth expression x and y arc
  local l_mouthrx="$3"
  local l_mouthry="$4"
  # which route to sweep
  local l_sweepflag="$5"
  local l_sat="80%"
cat << EOF
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!-- Copyright (c) 2021 Wolfgang Fahl see  http://wiki.bitplan.com/index.php/Pain_Scale -->
<svg
   xmlns:svg="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
   width="210mm"
   height="210mm"
   id="painbase"
   version="1.1"
   viewBox="0 0 220 220">
  <defs>
  <!-- radial Gradient -->
  <radialGradient
       id="grad1" gradientUnits="userSpaceOnUse">
            <stop offset="0%"   style="start-color:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,70%);stop-color:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,60%); "/>
            <stop offset="70%"  style="stop-color:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,50%); "/>
            <stop offset="100%" style="stop-color:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,40%); "/>
    </radialGradient>

  </defs>
  <!-- face -->
  <circle cx="105" cy="105" r="100" style="fill:url(#grad1);" stroke="black"
          stroke-width="2" ></circle>

  <!-- eyes -->
  <circle id="lefteye"  cx= "65"  cy="65" r="12" style="fill:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,30%)" ></circle>
  <circle id="righteye" cx="145"  cy="65" r="12" style="fill:hsl($l_color,$l_sat,30%)" ></circle>

  <!-- mouth -->
  <path id="mouth" d="M 35 $l_mouthy A $l_mouthrx $l_mouthry 0 0 $l_sweepflag  175 $l_mouthy" stroke="hsl($l_color,$l_sat,30%)" fill="none" stroke-width="5"/>

</svg>
EOF
}
pain=0
while [ $pain -lt 11 ]
do
        color=$((100-pain*10))
        mouthy=$((105+pain*6))
        sweepflag=0
        factor=$((5-pain))
        if [ $pain -ge 5 ]
        then
           factor=$((pain-5))
           sweepflag=1
        fi
        mouthrx=$((205-factor*10))
        mouthry=$((factor*90))
        echo "generating pain icon for $pain"
        onepain $color $mouthy $mouthrx $mouthry $sweepflag> /tmp/pain$pain.svg
        pain=$(($pain+1))
done