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Re: Inverting colourtable [message #25657] Thu, 05 July 2001 07:21
david[2] is currently offline  david[2]
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Simon de Vet writes:

> Will this still work for postscript output? I'm not doing any of my
> visualization on screen.

Sigh... Probably not.

I'm guessing you don't really know what color indices
you are using to draw your filled contour colors in.
If you did (and you should), you probably wouldn't
be asking this question, since the answer would be
so simple: reverse the numbers!

I'd leave the color table alone (it will be decades
before color is needed on computers anyway) and do
something like this. Suppose you have 20 contour
levels you intend to visualize:

nsteps = 20
LOADCT, 0, NColors=20, Bottom=1
step = (Max(data) - Min(data)) / nsteps
nlevels = Indgen(nsteps) * step + Min(data)
Contour, data, Levels=nlevels, /Fill, $
C_Colors=Reverse(Indgen(nsteps)+1)

That will work *everywhere*. :-)

Cheers,

David

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Re: Inverting colourtable [message #25660 is a reply to message #25657] Thu, 05 July 2001 06:13 Go to previous message
Simon de Vet is currently offline  Simon de Vet
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Ben Tupper wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You can use the TVLCT procedure to get and then set the colors...
>
> IDL> tvlct, r,g,b, /get
> IDL> help, r,g,b
> R BYTE = Array[256]
> G BYTE = Array[256]
> B BYTE = Array[256]
> IDL> tvlct, reverse(r), reverse(g), reverse(b)

Will this still work for postscript output? I'm not doing any of my
visualization on screen.


-- Simon
Re: Inverting colourtable [message #25661 is a reply to message #25660] Thu, 05 July 2001 06:07 Go to previous message
btt is currently offline  btt
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Registered: December 2000
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Hi,

You can use the TVLCT procedure to get and then set the colors...

IDL> tvlct, r,g,b, /get
IDL> help, r,g,b
R BYTE = Array[256]
G BYTE = Array[256]
B BYTE = Array[256]
IDL> tvlct, reverse(r), reverse(g), reverse(b)

Ben

Simon de Vet wrote:
>
> I've been printing a lot of filled contour maps using the B&W colour
> table (CT#0). This was great when I had mostly white or light grey
> values, but lately I've been in the black, and this seriously eats up
> the toner.
>
> Is there an quick and easy way to reverse the colours in a colourtable?
>
> -- Simon

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