Re: plot in different colors
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- Subject: [mg27728] Re: plot in different colors
- From: "David Annetts" <David.Annetts at dem.csiro.au>
- Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 03:52:46 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Robert, "Robert" <robert.schuerhuber at gmx.at> wrote in message news:98cfmm$fhl at smc.vnet.net... > hi! > if i plot a list of functons, how can i command mathematica to plot each > function in a different color? i know i can use rgbcolor to change the > color of the plot, but it is not practical to enter a list of > rgbcolor[r,g,b] values at each plot. is there an (easy) solution to do > this more or less automatically? > regards, robert For a series of functions (say ftnt = Sin[# Pi t/32] & /@ Range[2, 16]), define a list of colours (say plots = Hue[#/9] & /@ Range[8];). Then you can use Plot[Evaluate[ftnt], {t, -Pi, Pi}, PlotStyle -> plots]; to plot the functions, each with a different colour. This trick also works for MultipelListPlot. You can probably extend this so that it happens auotmatically using a predefined lookup table. Regards, Dave. -- ----------------------------------- David Annetts EM Modelling Analyst CSIRO DEM -----------------------------------