Re: Building lists
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- Subject: [mg22331] Re: Building lists
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:13:20 -0500 (EST)
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Tom: Needs["Graphics`Colors`"] Show[Graphics[ MapThread[{#, Disk[{0, 0}, #2]} &, {{Blue, Red, Purple, Plum, Gold, Olive, Pink, Navy, Mint, Black}, Range[200, 20, -20]}] ], AspectRatio -> Automatic, PlotRange -> All, DefaultFont -> {"Times", 18} ]; Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "Tom De Vries" <tdevries at shop.westworld.ca> wrote in message news:892pmg$pkl at smc.vnet.net... > Hello, > > The graphics command below builds a simple bull's eye. (I used it for a > probability question in my math class) It does what I want it to, but with > all the repetition I know that it is probably possible to do it more simply. > It isn't so long but I figured I could learn something by seeing how this > command could be duplicated in different ways. I was looking at Thread but > couldn't quite manage to get things to work out. The specific colors > aren't really important, but I did want to get each disk to be a different > color. > > Thanks for any suggestions you might have. > > Sincerely, > > Tom De Vries > > Needs["Graphics`Colors`"] > > Show[Graphics[{ > > {Blue, Disk[{0, 0}, 200]}, > {Red, Disk[{0, 0}, 180]}, > {Purple, Disk[{0, 0}, 160]}, > {Plum, Disk[{0, 0}, 140]}, > {Gold, Disk[{0, 0}, 120]}, > {Olive, Disk[{0, 0}, 100]}, > {Pink, Disk[{0, 0}, 80]}, > {Navy, Disk[{0, 0}, 60]}, > {Mint, Disk[{0, 0}, 40]}, > {Black, Disk[{0, 0}, 20]} > > }], AspectRatio -> Automatic, PlotRange -> All, > DefaultFont -> {"Times", 18}]; > > >