Contour plot legend
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg80508] Contour plot legend
- From: "jeremy rutman" <jeremy_spagnet at hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 06:27:48 -0400 (EDT)
Is there no simple way to get a decent legend in a contour plot? {simple+decent for me is : automatic colours and numbers that correspond to the plot} Once upon a time there was a LabelContour package by the venerable Tom Wickham-Jones, which made a decent contour plot legend without days of hassle. This has been successfully broken in version 6.01. I tried both ContourLabels -> Automatic which puts labels in arbitrary and often horrific places, and Legend from the plotlegend package which seems to require that I specify the colors and values by hand which would probably waste me several days of work figuring out how to do it. I would use ContourLabels -> Automatic if I could make the labels' colour automatically have maximum contrast with the background colour (e.g. opposite colour on colour wheel; in the help example i only saw a fixed and repugnant white bkcgnd) but again this seems like it would take quite some time futzing around. An interesting post from the archive: >I am very frustrated by the Legend package. ... >>Truely, Legend sucks:) _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/