Re: Explicit color for pm3d

[Petr M. <mi...@ph...>]

> > > 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 :-)

I've tried it and it works. 

Interesting feature, I never needed to code explicit colours. 

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