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Re: Bug on palette

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Sorry for first empty, wrong key for line-wrapping.

Vasilis wrote:
> Dear Ethan,
> 
> thank you for your reply, but i think it is a problem that could be
> fixed. In any case it was working back in 4.2.
> 
> Setting a low number of maxcolor is extremely important when we make
> colorplots with dose (output of monte carlo physics programs).
> Setting a low number of maxcolors allows you to perfectly distinguish
> visually various regions of interest in your plot. If you use a
> smooth palette, you get a pleasing result for the eye but it is very
> hard to read it (e.g get the value-range of a pixel).

Exact my point. I also like the maxcolor (10 or so). Sometimes to be
adjusted with the cbrange-tics... so that the cbrange-tics are at the
color-switch.

 We wonder is
> this color or the next one? Almost all scientific programs that I
> know (monte carlo, molecular dynamics, finite elements etc)

[x] MSC Patran/Nastran has 12/16 colors by default. If you use a good
interpretable hot-cold-mapping sometimes it becomes difficult to read
the right color in the printout.

Olaf

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Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 03:32 -0700
  Re: Bug on palette Ethan A Merritt <merritt@u.washington.edu> - 2013-10-18 17:18 -0700
    Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 01:28 -0700
      Re: Bug on palette Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2013-10-19 13:28 +0200
      Re: Bug on palette Olaf Schultz <o.schultz@enhydralutris.de> - 2013-10-19 13:37 +0200
      Re: Bug on palette Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 10:34 -0700
        Re: Bug on palette Ethan A Merritt <EAMerritt@gmail.com> - 2013-10-19 11:28 -0700
          Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 05:27 -0700
          Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 08:59 -0700
          Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-20 09:37 -0700
            Re: Bug on palette sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-10-20 12:05 -0700
              Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-21 00:28 -0700
                Re: Bug on palette sfeam <sfeam@users.sourceforge.net> - 2013-10-22 14:20 -0700
                Re: Bug on palette Vasilis <vvlachoudis@gmail.com> - 2013-10-23 00:42 -0700

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