Re: Making sense of Directive[ ]
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- Subject: [mg75871] Re: Making sense of Directive[ ]
- From: ragfield <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On May 10, 3:27 am, "Forex Ample" <F... at Ample.com> wrote:
> I stumbled upon the new Directive[ ] function, used to group Graphics
> directives into one compound directive. However, I fail to see what it is
> good for. In every example in the documentation, replacing Directive with
> List seems to produce the exact same results. Anybody got a clue?
Compare:
Plot[{Sin[x], Cos[x]}, {x, 0, 2 Pi},
PlotStyle -> {Green, AbsoluteThickness[5]}]
Plot[{Sin[x], Cos[x]}, {x, 0, 2 Pi},
PlotStyle -> Directive[Green, AbsoluteThickness[5]]]
-Rob