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Re: ColorFunction and/or ColorOutput - mkdk


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  • Subject: [mg10789] Re: ColorFunction and/or ColorOutput - mkdk
  • From: Paul Abbott <paul@physics.uwa.edu.au>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 00:58:33 -0500
  • Organization: University of Western Australia
  • References: <6b3one$rpi@smc.vnet.net>

decker, mark a wrote:

> I would also like to clean up all the errors I am generating, by either
> defining my function in a different way OR turning off a few of the
> error codes.  I realize there are undefined regions in the plot.
> 
> Here it is.   It was simple enough I didn't even define functions.
> 
> cond = {alpha -> Pi/6, lambda -> 2.15, Ei -> Ep - Es}
> 
> R = lambda Ei Sqrt[ 1 - (Ep/Ei) Sin[alpha]^2 ]
> 
> DensityPlot[R /. cond, {Ep, 0, 6}, {Es,0,4.5}, Mesh->False,
> PlotRange->{0,1}, PlotPoints->100 ]
> 
> What I would like to do is the following:
> 
> R<0 be black
> 
> R=0  some bright color.
> 
> 0<R<1 be shaded where R~0 is dark and R~1 is light.
> 
> R>1    be white
> 
> R undefined   be some other color.

How about

	color[x_]:= Which[x < 0, GrayLevel[1],x == 5, Hue[1],0<x<1, Hue[x],
		True, GrayLevel[0]]

	Off[Power::infy, DensityPlot::plnr, Infinity::indet,
DensityGraphics::zval]

	DensityPlot[Evaluate[R /. cond], {Ep, 0, 6}, {Es,0,4.5}, 
		Mesh->False, PlotPoints->100, ColorFunction->color]

You can avoid some of the problems you're encountering by introducing a
function, f, like

	f[Ep_, Es_, alpha_, lambda_] = 
		lambda Ei Sqrt[1 - Ep/Ei Sin[alpha]^2] /. Ei -> Ep - Es

When Ep==Es there is a problem.  Taking a Limit avoids this:

	f[Ep_, Ep_, alpha_, lambda_] =  Limit[f[Ep, Es, alpha, lambda], Ep ->
Es]

	DensityPlot[f[Ep, Es, Pi/6, 2.15], {Ep, 0, 6}, {Es, 0, 4.5}, 
		Mesh -> False, PlotPoints->100, ColorFunction->color]; 

Cheers,
	Paul 
 
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