Jose Guzman wrote: > kcrisman wrote: >> >>> In looking at your code, I had an idea about specifying colors. Why >>> don't we have some default color objects defined in Sage, like red, >>> blue, yellow, green, etc. Methods could include .darker(), .lighter(), >>> etc. So you could specify a plot as: >>> >>> plot(x^2, (x,0,1), color=red) >>> plot(x^3, (x,0,1), color=blue.darker()) >>> plot(x^4, (x,0,1), color=green.lighter()) >>> plot(x^5, (x,0,1), color=red+blue) #gives purple :) >>> >>> and then for the more esoteric names (all of the standard web colors, >>> all of the standard x11 colors, etc.), use the color namespace. >>> >>> plot(sin(x), (x,0,1), color=color.goldenrod) >>> >> This sounds great; presumably it wouldn't be too hard to do, if very >> annoying (particularly because some of the plot methods only allow >> rgbcolor, others allow cmap options, etc.) - though what if I want red >> to stand for some other Python/Sage object? And of course only >> English colors would be there, and what about gray/grey ... >> >> By the way, other readers of this thread please note: >> >> sage: plot(x^2, (x,0,1), color='red') >> >> works fine! >> >> - kcrisman >> > I particularly like the rgbcolor notation. That's the only way I found > to have vector graphic environment (i.e inkscape) to match with > matplotlib or sage . On the other hand I usually use some kind of ... > > plot (x**2, (0,1), rgbcolor=(0.5,0.5,0) ) # dark green > > because I found the default green color (rgbcolor=(0,1,0)) looks too > brilliant with some beamers when you give a talk. Anyway, I tried with > rgbcolor='blue' ,'red','green','yellow','black','orange' and worked fine.
Yes, I'm saying that in addition to being able to pass a tuple or string, we'd be able to pass a sage color object. Jason --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
