Re: ColorFunction in DensityPlot
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- Subject: [mg14205] Re: ColorFunction in DensityPlot
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 03:00:38 -0400
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Selwyn Hollis wrote in message <6u87rm$4p3 at smc.vnet.net>...
>Let's say we're solving the heat equation on [0,1]x[0,1] numerically
>with an initial temperature distribution with values in [0,1], and
>we're displaying the solution with ListDensityPlot as it evolves over
>time. How can one specify the ColorFunction option in ListDensityPlot
>so that a temperature of 1 _always_ shows as red and a temperature of 0
>always shows as blue (with green, yellow, orange in between)? In other
>words, I need a fixed mapping between function values and color.
Selwyn,
List density plot passes on to ColorFunction the grid values scaled so
that the used PlotRange maps onto 0 to 1. So a simple way to achieve
your immediate aim is with
ListDensityPlot[temperatures
PlotRange->{0,1},ColorFunction->(Hue[2/3(1-#)]&)]
Allan,
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