Re: Explicit color for pm3d

[Ethan A M. <sf...@us...>]

On Friday, March 25, 2011 10:32:05 am Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> On Friday, March 25, 2011 10:15:28 am Douglas Mason wrote:
> > Dear Developers,
> > 
> > There's a little discussion going on at the bug request tracker about making
> > an explicit color column for pm3d. The idea is that rgbimage and "w p lc
> > var" allow you to color each point with an explicit color, not interpolating
> > on a palette. Since pm3d offers options like "corner2colors", which tells
> > pm3d to use a color that is NOT interpolated among nearby points, it seems
> > reasonable that a pm3d option could be made for explicit colors. 
 
> Although I am not so familiar with the code for pm3d, this sounds possible.
> Am I failing to see some fundamental difficulty?

Trial patch and sample PNG output now on the tracker.
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=352055&aid=3237990&group_id=2055

I can't think of any drawback to allowing "with pm3d lc rgb variable",
but go ahead and try to find something that breaks :-)

	Ethan