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Re: color-coding two sets of plotted curves?

From Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@spinn.net>
Newsgroups comp.soft-sys.math.mathematica
Subject Re: color-coding two sets of plotted curves?
Date 2011-05-14 07:14 +0000
Organization Steven M. Christensen and Associates, Inc and MathTensor, Inc.
Message-ID <iqla4t$a07$1@smc.vnet.net> (permalink)

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Bob Hanlon wrote:
> The two ParametricPlots can be collapsed down to a single one
>
> ParametricPlot[Evaluate[
>     Thread[
>      Table[{
>        xy[(j + 1)/4, Pi u],
>        xy[6 (u + 1), j Pi/6]},
>       {j, 0, 11}]]],
>    {u, -1, 1},
>    PlotPoints ->  50,
>    PlotStyle ->  {Red, Blue},
>    PlotRange ->  {{0, 4.2}, {-2, 2}}] // Quiet
>
> Bob Hanlon
>
>    
Thank you.  I didn't know about 'Thread' but had a vague feeling 
something like it ought to exist.  Now to get familiar with it.

- Dushan

> ---- Dushan Mitrovich<dushanm@spinn.net>  wrote:
>
> =============
> After a lot of experimentation I finally found a way to plot two sets of
> curves orthogonal using one color per set.  The following relates
> Bipolar and Cartesian coordinates, then plots the sets of coordinate
> lines Red and Blue:
>
> xy[Xi_, Theta_] := {  Sinh[Xi]/(Cosh[Xi]+Cos[Theta]),
>                       Sin[Theta]/(Cosh[Xi]+Cos[Theta])}
>
> pXi = ParametricPlot[Evaluate@Table[xy[(j+1)/4, Pi u], {j,0,11}],
>                        {u,-1,1}, PlotRange->{{0,4.2},{-2,2}},
>                        PlotPoints->50, PlotStyle->{Red}];
>
> pTheta = ParametricPlot[Evaluate@Table[xy[6 (u+1), j Pi/6], {j,0,11}],
>                        {u,-1,1}, PlotRange->{{0,4.2},{-2,2}},
>                        PlotPoints->50, PlotStyle->{Blue}];
>
> Show[pXi,pTheta]
>
> Everything else I tried plotted all the curves the same color.  Am I
> using the recommended approach or is there another, more direct one?
>
> - Dushan
>
>
>
>    

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Re: color-coding two sets of plotted curves? Dushan Mitrovich <dushanm@spinn.net> - 2011-05-14 07:14 +0000

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