Is it possible to resolve a value to a color using echarts visualMap from the "outside", as api?

Question

For my custom report, I need to use just the Visual Map component from apache echarts library and "synchronize" it with my custom report which does not uses echarts. The problem I face is that I do not know how to resolve values in my custom report to colors from echarts' visualMap. Is it possible to get a color from a continuous visualMap component by providing a value from a custom report? Any suggestions on the interpolation type that echarts' visualMap uses in order to employ d3-scale-chromatic, for example, as a workaround? Thanks.