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Re: MatrixPlot: range of colors and plot legend?

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• Subject: [mg106905] Re: MatrixPlot: range of colors and plot legend?
• From: dh <dh at metrohm.com>
• Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:42:16 -0500 (EST)
• References: <hjh8am$r9r$1@smc.vnet.net> <hjmjhi$es$1@smc.vnet.net>

my message seems to have benn mutilated by some unknown reason. I try again:

work with ArrayPlot. To get a gray scaled representation of a matrix e.g:

We may add a legend:

dh wrote:

> work with ArrayPlot. To get a gray scaled representation of a matrix e.g:

> We may add a legend:

> dantimatter wrote:

>> I'm having a little bit of trouble with MatrixPlot:

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>> 1)  It looks to me like the default color set goes from a pale, sandy

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>> orange to a dark orange.  Well, it would be more correct to say that

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>> my wife told me that the default color set goes from a pale, sandy

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>> orange to a dark orange, since I'm essentially color blind.  Is there

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>> a color set that goes from white to black through all the shades of

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>> grey?  And would I need to scale the numbers appropriately?  They're

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>> currently running from approximately 0 to 1.

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>> 2)  Is there a command or an option that would give me a legend?

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>> Cheers,

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>> Dan

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