Re: fill pattern

[Daniel J S. <dan...@ie...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> On Monday 28 August 2006 01:25 pm, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> 
>>Well, colors seems to be a good alternative.  Is there some way to
>>use defined rgb colors with the fill to expand the allowable number?
> 
> 
> That works now, so far as I know.
> Did you have a particular example where is doesn't?

No.  I wasn't sure.  Perhaps that is the solution for Dhiman, who said the first attempt was with colors but that also repeated.  (The example Dhiman gave had three instances of red.)


> The thing is, pattern-fill is mostly used in cases where you
> _can't_ use colors,  e.g. black+white figures for publication.

That's true, but I don't think that was a limitation for Dhiman, otherwise color wouldn't have been attempted in the first place.  It seems to me that pattern is useful, but just for a small number of classes.

Maybe an histogram example with "rgbcolor" would be a nice addition to 'histograms2.dem'.  Rather than the basic colors, choose some far out colors that would catch the viewer's attention, i.e., "How did they get those colors?" kind of thing.  In the attached patch I attempted the gaudiest colors I could.

Does this help Dhiman?

Dan

PS:  Any ideas as to why that fourth from right column in Dhiman's example is shorter than the others?  Dhiman, you might be able to make the best guess.

PPS:  I notice some slight overlap and blending of colors in the histogram2.dem examples.  (I didn't look beyond X11.)