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RE: Re: ColorFunction for ListPlot3D, ListContourPlot or ListDensityPlot ?

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  • Subject: [mg29084] RE: [mg29048] Re: ColorFunction for ListPlot3D, ListContourPlot or ListDensityPlot ?
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 18:04:49 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

John,

I think it is a great idea to always load the Graphics`Colors` package. But
my routine doesn't really work quite right with your example. As first
presented, the routine assumes that the colors are both RGBColors. Here is a
modified routine which does some checking on the heads of the colors, and
also clips z so it is always in the domain 0 to 1.

ColorMix[color1_, color2_][z_] /; Head[color1] === Head[color2] :=
   Module[{c1, c2, head, z2},
    head = Head[color1];
    z2 = Max[0, Min[1, z]];
    c1 = List @@ color1;
    c2 = List @@ color2;
    head @@ ((1 - z2)c1 + z2 c2)]

Then, either of these works.

blend = ColorMix[CMYKColor[0, 1, .8, 0], CMYKColor[1, 0, .8, 0]];
blend = ColorMix[BurntSienna, PaleGreen];

Plot3D[Sin[x + 3*y - Random[]], {x, 0, 4}, {y, 0, 3},
  ColorFunction -> blend, PlotPoints -> 31, ImageSize -> 450]

I don't think Mathematica gives a direct way to convert one type of color
specification to another, say CMYKColor to RGBColor, such that they could be
combined in a routine like ColorMix.

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

> From: John Jowett [mailto:John.Jowett at cern.ch]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> David,
>     It  may be worth remarking that your function is even more useful
> (without modification!) if you first load the standard package
>
> <<Graphics`Colors`
>
> Then you can mix ways of specifying colours to your heart's content, e.g.,
>
> blend =ColorMix[BurntSienna,CMYKColor[1,..8,0]]
>
> Plot3D[Sin[x+3 y-Random[]],{x,0,4},{y,0,3},ColorFunction->blend]
>
> John Jowett
>
> "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net> wrote in message
> news:oplP6.3625$8I3.14298 at ralph.vnet.net...
> > Joerg,
> >
> > Here is a ColorMix function for blending two colors. (I think that Bob
> > Hanlon had a similar routine posted a few days ago.)
> >
> > ColorMix[color1_, color2_][z_] :=
> >   Module[{c1, c2},
> >     c1 = List @@ color1;
> >     c2 = List @@ color2;
> >     RGBColor @@ ((1 - z)c1 + z c2)]
> >
> > Here, I make a contour plot that shades from brown to green. I
> picked the
> > colors off the color selector in the menu.
> >
> > ContourPlot[Sin[x*y], {x, -Pi/2, Pi/2},
> >    {y, -Pi/2, Pi/2}, PlotPoints -> 30, Contours -> 10,
> >    ContourLines -> False, ColorFunction ->
> >     ColorMix[RGBColor[0.867201, 0.660166, 0.312505],
> >      RGBColor[0.265629, 0.398444, 0.101564]]];
> >
> > David Park
> > djmp at earthlink.net
> > http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
> >
>
>
>
>



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