Re: Color according to concavity
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- Subject: [mg128852] Re: Color according to concavity
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 05:58:05 -0500 (EST)
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f[x_] = Sin[x] Cos[2 x];
Plot[f[x], {x, 0, 4 Pi},
ColorFunction -> Function[{x, y},
If[f''[x] < 0, Red, Blue]],
ColorFunctionScaling -> False]
Bob Hanlon
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Sergio Miguel Terrazas Porras
<sterraza at uacj.mx> wrote:
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> Dear fellows at mathgroup:
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> I want to plot a function with the color of the parts of the curve according to concavity, say Red when concve down an blue when concave up.
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> I can do it by brute force, finding whwn the second derivative is cero, and then finding the sign of it in the different intervals, etc. This for particular examples.
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> But, is there a way to use the second derivative as part of a ColorFunction, or something like that?
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> Thanks
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- Color according to concavity
- From: Sergio Miguel Terrazas Porras <sterraza@uacj.mx>
- Color according to concavity