Re: Density plot colours and Lua

["alesteakira" <aleste2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Keith Gregory <k.gregory@xxxx> 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.