Re: Getting Color *names* as strings?
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- Subject: [mg67485] Re: [mg67473] Getting Color *names* as strings?
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:51:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net
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You have to start with strings for the color names.
greens=Names["*Green*"];
Note that these are strings.
Plot[ x, {x,0,1},
PlotStyle ->ToExpression[#],
PlotLabel -> #]&/@greens;
Bob Hanlon
---- AES <siegman at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Trying out different named Colors in a plot by using
>
> greens={CinnabarGreen, ChromeOxideGreen, CobaltGreen, etc};
>
> Do[ Plot[ func, range, PlotStyle -> greens[[k]],
> PlotLabel -> ToString[greens[[k]]] ] ,
> {k, 1, Length[greens]} ];
>
> Works fine -- except the PlotLabel comes out as "RGB[num, num, num]" --
> and using SymbolName[greens[[1]]] or even SymbolName[CinnabarGreen] does
> _not_ give the string "CinnabarGreen".
>
> How can I get the *name* of each color as a string to put in PlotLabel
> or in a Text label?
>
> (Trivial problem, I agree, but just frustrating enough to be interesting)
>
--
Bob Hanlon
hanlonr at cox.net