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Re: Color for radial 3d vector field

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  • Subject: [mg83051] Re: Color for radial 3d vector field
  • From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:18:03 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <fgs7tq$3lc$1@smc.vnet.net>

leonard.smiley at gmail.com wrote:
> Is it possible to plot the radial vector field x*d/dx + y*d/dy + z*d/
> dz with the color of the arrows changing (let's say cooling) with the
> distance from the origin? (In this case, of course, you could have
> color depend on length of arrow)
> 

VectorFieldPlot3D has the ColorFunction options.  E.g.\ try 
ColorFunction -> Hue.  In this case the colour function seems to take 
only a single argument (the length of the vector).

-- 
Szabolcs


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