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Re: Coloring function

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  • Subject: [mg121477] Re: Coloring function
  • From: "Oleksandr Rasputinov" <oleksandr_rasputinov at hmamail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:49:36 -0400 (EDT)
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On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 09:40:14 +0100, guiwi <guillaume.witz at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody. I have a general problem with the coloring method of
> ColofFunction. Let's consider a plane of points that one wants to plot
> with ListPointPlot3D. If I want to color the points according to their
> x position, I write:
>
> ListPointPlot3D[Flatten[Table[Table[{i, j, 0}, {j, -30, 30}], {i, -30,
> 30}], 1], ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, RGBColor[x, 0, 0]]]
>
> and that indeed works. But if I want to color according to the
> absolute value of x and use
>
> ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, RGBColor[Abs[x], 0, 0]]
>
>  the coloring is not symmetrical around the x=0 position, but
> identical to the previous case. Another problem is to obtain a radial
> coloring with
>
> ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, RGBColor[x^2+y^2, 0, 0]]
>
> where the origin of the radial coloring is not at {0,0} but somewhere
> on the edge of the plot. Anyone knows how to control that coloring ?
> Thanks.
> Guillaume
>

The option you are looking for is ColorFunctionScaling -> False. However,  
since RGBColor expects its arguments to be normalised, you will have to do  
this yourself:

ListPointPlot3D[
  Flatten[Table[Table[{i, j, 0}, {j, -30, 30}], {i, -30, 30}], 1],
  ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y, z}, RGBColor[Abs[x]/30, 0, 0]],
  ColorFunctionScaling -> False
]

ListPointPlot3D[
  Flatten[Table[Table[{i, j, 0}, {j, -30, 30}], {i, -30, 30}], 1],
  ColorFunction ->
   Function[{x, y, z}, RGBColor[(x^2 + y^2)/(2 30^2), 0, 0]],
  ColorFunctionScaling -> False
]




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