| Re: Contour Plot with Handful of Colors [message #77538] |
Thu, 08 September 2011 11:49 |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> The other common denominator in these programs
> (aside from the fact that Mark wrote them!) is that
> they all seem to be crashing at the Colorbar() function
> call. If I were going to investigate this, that's where
> I would start the investigation. :-)
OK, after *many* reboots (don't worry, I have a murder
mystery on the Kindle!) I have discovered that if I use
the TICKNAME keyword on the Colorbar() function and pass
in a vector of strings that I will immediately and
irrevocably crash my Windows 7, 64-bit OS.
Maybe the ITTVIS guys can pass this along to their
technical support people (who have not gotten back
to me yet today).
Cheers,
David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Contour Plot with Handful of Colors [message #77544 is a reply to message #77538] |
Thu, 08 September 2011 08:20  |
David Fanning
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David Fanning writes:
> Do I dare run this program!? It is probably a coincidence,
> but I notice that you have written all of my growing list
> of programs that reliably crash my computer! :-)
OK, I have another program for the CRASH-IT! list. :-(
The other common denominator in these programs
(aside from the fact that Mark wrote them!) is that
they all seem to be crashing at the Colorbar() function
call. If I were going to investigate this, that's where
I would start the investigation. :-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. I took the precaution of stepping through this
program, so I could see where it was crashing my
machine.
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Contour Plot with Handful of Colors [message #77546 is a reply to message #77544] |
Thu, 08 September 2011 08:07 |
David Fanning
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Mark Piper writes:
> It's possible, but you have to mess with the color tables.
Do I dare run this program!? It is probably a coincidence,
but I notice that you have written all of my growing list
of programs that reliably crash my computer! :-)
In other words, it seems to be the work-arounds for doing
simple things that are doing me in. :-(
OK, I'll try this and see what happens. If you don't
hear from me in an hour, you will know. ;-)
Cheers,
David
P.S. What version of IDL do you use, and on what machine?
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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| Re: Contour Plot with Handful of Colors [message #77547 is a reply to message #77546] |
Thu, 08 September 2011 07:42 |
Mark Piper
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Registered: December 2009
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On 9/7/2011 8:45 PM, David Fanning wrote:
> Folks,
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> I am trying to reproduce a filled contour plot with
> a colorbar with a handful (9, in this case) of colors.
> Does anyone know how to produce a function graphics
> color bar with less than 256 colors? Also, I can't
> get my function graphics filled contour to use the
> colors I am trying to assign to it. :-(
>
> Any ideas?
>
Hi David,
It's possible, but you have to mess with the color tables.
mp
pro ng_discrete_colorbar
compile_opt idl2
; Example function to plot with a range of [0,100].
d = dist(41)
fmax = 100.0
f = d / max(d) * fmax
; Explicitly set 11 contour levels: [0, 10, 20, ... 100].
n_levels = 11
levels = findgen(n_levels)/(n_levels-1)*fmax
; Make a step color table for the contour plot. The color table
'step_ct'
; is a [256,3] array, but there are only n_levels=11 distinct colors (to
; check, load & view the color table in XPALETTE). The indices into
the color
; tables (both original and step) are contour levels interpolated to
the
; range of color table indices (i.e., the byte range).
ct_number = 4
ct_indices = bytscl(levels)
loadct, ct_number, rgb_table=ct, /silent
step_ct = congrid(ct[ct_indices, *], 256, 3)
; Display the example function using the step color table and the
; interpolated indices.
c1 = contour(f, $
c_value=levels, $
rgb_table=step_ct, $
rgb_indices=ct_indices, $
/fill, $
margin=[0.15, 0.20, 0.15, 0.15], $ ; leave room for colorbar
title='Max = ' + strtrim(fmax,2), $
window_title='Discrete Colorbar Example')
; The colorbar needs n_levels+1 ticks for labels to line up correctly.
tick_labels = [strtrim(fix(levels), 2), ''] ; append empty string
cb = colorbar( $
target=c1, $
ticklen=0, $
major=n_levels+1, $
tickname=tick_labels, $
font_size=10, $
position=[0.2, 0.07, 0.8, 0.1])
end
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