Re: Plotting colorfunctions over multiple parametric curves
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- Subject: [mg125209] Re: Plotting colorfunctions over multiple parametric curves
- From: Andrew Green <kiwibooga at googlemail.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:22:50 -0500 (EST)
- Delivered-to: l-mathgroup@mail-archive0.wolfram.com
Hi Bob
Thanks for the reply. I am a step further thank you, but the results are strange. It is as if the colorfunction is clipping values below 0 and above 1 - it is not scaling even if ColorFunctionScaling->true is added. Consider potential[theta_,i_] = theta+1.0, I would have expected you should still get a full rainbow of colors (0 to 2pi mapped to 0 to 1), instead all are red.
n = 3;
XYR = ( {
{-2.1, 0, 1.0},
{0, 0, 0.5},
{2.1, 0, 1.0}
} );
x[i_] := XYR[[i, 1]];
y[i_] := XYR[[i, 2]];
r[i_] := XYR[[i, 3]];
potential[theta_, i_] := theta + 1.0;
circle[i_, theta_] := {x[i] + r[i]*Cos[theta], y[i] + r[i]*Sin[theta]};
Show[Table[
ParametricPlot[circle[i, theta], {theta, 0, 2 Pi},
PlotStyle -> Thick, Axes -> False, ImageSize -> 200,
ColorFunction ->
Function[{x, y, theta},
ColorData["TemperatureMap"][potential[theta, i]]],
ColorFunctionScaling -> True], {i, 1, n}], PlotRange -> All]
Any ideas why?
Thanks - Andrew