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Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette

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From	Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net>
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Subject	Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette
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Am 10.11.2016 um 12:03 schrieb John Edwards:

> I was wondering if anyone can think of a neat trick to vary the color of 
> a line according to magnitude. E.g. If I plot sin(x) I'd like the color 
> to vary with signal matnitude.
> 
> To explain further what I am trying to do, I'd like to use a palette of 
> greens and reds so that when the signal goes over a threshold then the 
> plot would vary (slowly) from green to red to highlight specific issues.

Hm, very easy:

  set samp 800

  colourf(x) = (x<treshold) ? 0 : (x * 256) + (256 * (1-x) * 256)

  plot "+" us 1:(sin($1)):(colourf((sin($1)+1)/2)) w l lc rgb var lw 3

, where you define colourf(0<=x<1) so it returns a suitable 24 bit
integer, corresponding to the desired rgb colour.

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Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette John Edwards <johned0@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 11:03 +0000
  Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2016-11-10 13:37 +0100
    Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette Ethan A Merritt <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2016-11-10 15:36 -0800
      Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette John Edwards <johned0@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 10:24 +0000
  Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette Karl Ratzsch <mail.kfr@gmx.net> - 2016-11-10 18:32 +0100
    Re: Varying colour of a line plot, using a palette John Edwards <johned0@gmail.com> - 2016-11-11 10:23 +0000

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