Re: Plot Table of functions does not distinguish colors
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- Subject: [mg102701] Re: Plot Table of functions does not distinguish colors
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 07:03:40 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <h6duj1$h9f$1@smc.vnet.net>
On 2009.08.18. 12:08, fd wrote:
> All, this seems like a simple question, but when I want to create a
> table with different function as in the example
>
> Plot[Table[Sin[n x], {n, 1, 3, 1}], {x, 0, 2 Pi}, PlotRange -> All,
> PlotStyle -> Thick]
>
> I get all three plots with the same color. If I instead write the
> table manually
>
> Plot[{Sin[x], Sin[2 x], Sin[3 x]}, {x, 0, 2 Pi},PlotStyle->Thick]
>
> This gives a different plot with a different color for each plot.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on why this behavior?
In the first version, only one expression is passed to Plot[], not a
list of expressions. For some reason Plot[] does not notice that this
expression is going to evaluate to a list when it chooses the palette.
The solution is to evaluate the expression manually, or ask Plot[] to
evaluate it before substituting any values for x:
Plot[Table[Sin[n x], {n, 3}] // Evaluate, {x, 0, 2 Pi},
PlotStyle -> Thick]
Plot[Table[Sin[n x], {n, 3}], {x, 0, 2 Pi},
PlotStyle -> Thick, Evaluated -> True]