Re: Piecewise ColorFunction
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 - Subject: [mg125665] Re: Piecewise ColorFunction
 - From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
 - Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:32:12 -0500 (EST)
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Or just simply:
   f[y_] = Piecewise[{{Green, y < 0}, {Red, y >= 0}}];
   Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi}, PlotStyle -> Thick, ColorFunction -> f,
        ColorFunctionScaling -> False]
On 3/26/12 2:45 AM, Bob Hanlon wrote:
>> From the documentation: "With the usual default setting
> ColorFunctionScaling ->  True, all arguments supplied to func are
> scaled to lie in the range 0 to 1."
>
> ClearAll[f];
> f[y_] = Piecewise[{{Green, y<  0}, {Red, y>= 0}}];
>
> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi},
>   PlotStyle ->  Thick,
>   ColorFunction ->  Function[{x, y}, f[y - 1/2]]]
>
> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi},
>   PlotStyle ->  Thick,
>   ColorFunction ->  Function[{x, y}, f[y]],
>   ColorFunctionScaling ->  False]
>
> ClearAll[f];
> f = Piecewise[{{Green, #2<  0}, {Red, #2>= 0}}]&;
>
> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi},
>   PlotStyle ->  Thick,
>   ColorFunction ->  f,
>   ColorFunctionScaling ->  False]
>
>
> Bob Hanlon
>
>
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 1:17 AM, Hugh Goyder
> <h.g.d.goyder at cranfield.ac.uk>  wrote:
>> The first example below works to give a plot style with colours that vary with y-values. I then try to define a Piecewise function for the colour and this does not work. Am I doing something wrong? Thanks for any assistance.
>>
>> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi}, PlotStyle ->  Thick,
>>   ColorFunction ->  Function[{x, y}, ColorData["NeonColors"][y]]]
>>
>>
>> ClearAll[f];
>> f[x_, y_] := Piecewise[{{Green, y<  0}, {Red, y>= 0}}]
>>
>>
>> Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi}, PlotStyle ->  Thick, ColorFunction ->  f]
>>
>
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- References:
- Piecewise ColorFunction
- From: Hugh Goyder <h.g.d.goyder@cranfield.ac.uk>
 
 - Re: Piecewise ColorFunction
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357@gmail.com>
 
 
 - Piecewise ColorFunction