Re: ColorFunctions again (making z=0 be different from z=1)
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- Subject: [mg50512] Re: [mg50488] ColorFunctions again (making z=0 be different from z=1)
- From: Bob Walker <walkerbg at ieee.org>
- Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 05:15:36 -0400 (EDT)
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For the first question, one possibility is the ColorFunction defined as: ColorFunction\[Rule](Hue[.62+.91#]&), The .62 starts at blue (since I like to start with blue) and the .91 stops before it returns to full blue. You still get all the colors in between since Hue does a Mod 1 on its arg. Or closer to the default: ColorFunction\[Rule](Hue[91#]&), which will start at red and not get all the way back to red. For contour legends, I suggest you try the following LabelContour.m, which is available on MathSource, is writen by Tom Wickham-Jones and is discussed in his excellent book: Mathematica Graphics. Note that the book is written for Mathematica 3 so there are some differences. The package on MathSource has been updated for Mathematica 4 (and 5). Good luck Bob Walker AES/newspost wrote: >The simple ColorFunction->Hue option in Plot3D, ContourPlot, and >DensityPlot, makes z = 0 appear the same as z = 1 (i.e., both bright >red), a situation which seems to me to make these plots confusing >and more difficult to interpret, given that "high peaks" and "sea >level valleys" may be the most interesting features of such a plot. > >Do others have any favorite, not too messy ColorFunctions that >make values near z = 0 tend toward white, or grey, or less bright, >or something so that there's a clearly unidirectional visual >effect going from values of z near 0 to those near z = 1? > >[And as a side question, a simple Prolog or Epilog code to put >one of those scaled and labelled vertical color bars alongside a >ContourPlot or DensityPlot, perhaps with the same vertical >height as the plot itself?] > > > >
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- ColorFunctions again (making z=0 be different from z=1)