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Re: [ferret_users] How to drawing rainbow color lines?
Hi Ansley,
But the warm colors doesn't look right in .eps file.
Any idea?
Tony
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:33 -0700, Ansley Manke wrote:
> Hi -
> well, that's been in the code for quite a while but never documented,
> so I've got to do that!
>
> Ansley
>
> Jian Ma wrote:
> > Hi Ansley,
> >
> > That's exactly what I want! You are always saving my life!
> >
> > Mahalo,
> > Tony
> >
> > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:12 -0700, Ansley Manke wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Jian,
> > >
> > > Ferret has a MODE LINECOLORS which lets us set any number of line
> > > colors, but they must be set individually; they do not just take on a
> > > palette of colors. Colors are set via PPL COLOR as always; PPL
> > > COLOR,ipen,R,G,B where R,G,B are red,green,blue take on values 0 to 100.
> > >
> > > Try this;
> > >
> > > set mode linecolors:12
> > >
> > > ppl color,7,100,50,0 ! orange
> > > ppl color,8,0,55,0 ! dark green
> > > ppl color,9,60,0,100 ! purple
> > > ppl color,10,100,60,70 ! pink
> > > ppl color,11,80,70,60 ! tan
> > > ppl color,12,100,75,0 ! yellow
> > > plot/thick/line/i=1:100 \
> > > cos(i/20), cos(i/24), cos(i/28), cos(i/32), \
> > > cos(i/36), cos(i/40), cos(i/44), cos(i/48), \
> > > cos(i/52), cos(i/56), cos(i/60), cos(i/64)
> > >
> > > CANCEL MODE LINECOLORS ! sets the number back to the default of 6
> > > SET WINDOW/NEW ! the CANCEL MODE doesn't take effect until a
> > > new window is started.
> > >
> > > This has remained undocumented because until recently it was not working
> > > correctly in all modes of Ferret (batch mode -gif mode, and so on.)
> > > We'll get it into the documentation shortly. Note that choosing to set
> > > extra colors for lines takes away from the number of colors available
> > > for color-filled plots using palettes.
> > >
> > > Making scripts to assign sets of colors would be pretty straitforward.
> > >
> > > Ansley
> > >
> > > Ansley
> > >
> > > Jian Ma wrote:
> > >
> > > > Dear All,
> > > >
> > > > I am thinking of drawing rainbow color lines as default in GrADS. It is
> > > > a useful capability but Ferret could only draw 6+white color lines with
> > > > 3 thickness. What a pity!
> > > >
> > > > Is there any method to draw any color line like we easily do in shade?
> > > > Or will new versions of Ferret include that function?
> > > >
> > > > Many thanks,
> > > > Tony
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> >
> >
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