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# Re: Density plot colours and Lua

- To: femm@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Density plot colours and Lua
- From: "alesteakira" <aleste2@latinmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:02:51 -0000
- In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20030506075704.00add810@staff-mailin.lboro.ac.uk>
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    Maybe for the same work the user can specify the number of colors (16
    to 256 or so) for users who want continuous-looking distribution of
    field.

    --- In femm@yahoogroups.com, Keith Gregory <k.gregory@l...> wrote:
    > Dave,
    >
    > I would agree that too many colours can look messy but a few more
    could be
    > an improvement, the range at the moment is a bit too course. MEGA
    and
    > Quickfield (I think) use 32 colours and the plots look great but it
    is
    > difficult to differentiate between some of the mid range steps, so
    16 or
    > perhaps 24 colours might be worth trying.
    >
    > On another point Dave. I notice that Lua version 5 is released. Any
    plans
    > to update?
    >
    > Keith.
    >
    > >There is no easy way for an end user to make the program use more
    than
    > >12 different colors for the density plots.
    > >
    > >However, there is no fundamental reason that the program couldn't
    be
    > >changed to use more colors--it would be relatively easy to change
    the
    > >source so that there were, for example, 16 colors instead of 12. I
    > >just thought that things looked too busy with a lot more colors. I
    > >suppose that I could change the code so that there is more of a
    > >continuous-looking distribution of colors if there is a really
    strong
    > >feeling about it.
    > >
    > >Dave.

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