<div dir="ltr">Thanks Martin, I had a look at the results by using mptopdf (because the website you linked seems unreachable right now). <div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">It seems quite good. I only need to find a way to integrate it in a layout :-)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Marco</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Martin Sluka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:martinsluka@mac.com" target="_blank">martinsluka@mac.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I just found a Metapost example generating color transition, so it should work:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.ursoswald.ch/metapost/tutorial/Colors.html" target="_blank">http://www.ursoswald.ch/metapost/tutorial/Colors.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you add this code to Metapost viewer ( <a href="http://www.tlhiv.org/mppreview/" target="_blank">http://www.tlhiv.org/mppreview/</a> ), you may see it:</div><div><br></div><div>u:=25; % 25 = 25bp = 25 PostScript points = 30/72 in</div><div><div>wi:=10; % width in units u </div><div>he:=10; % height in units u</div><div>hoehe:=he*u; % height</div><div>breite:=wi*u; % width</div><div>pair P[], xy[];</div><div>path p[];</div><div>transform t;</div><div>color c[];</div><div>n:=20; rd:=0.2; b:=(wi-2rd)/4;</div><div><br></div><div>P0:=(0, 0);</div><div>t:=identity scaled u shifted P0;</div><div><br></div><div> fill (0, 0)--(breite, 0)--(breite, hoehe)--(0, hoehe)--cycle withcolor .9white;</div><div> draw (0, 0)--(breite, 0)--(breite, hoehe)--(0, hoehe)--cycle;</div><div> </div><div> for k=0 upto 3:</div><div> blau:=.3333k;</div><div> P1:=(rd, he-rd-b)+k*b*(1, -1);</div><div> for i=0 upto n-1:</div><div> for j=0 upto n-1:</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>xy0:=P1+(i*b/n, j*b/n);</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>p0:=xy0--(xy0+(b/n, 0))--(xy0+(b/n, b/n))--(xy0+(0, b/n))--cycle;</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>c0:=((i+1)/n, (j+1)/n, blau);</div><div><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>fill p0 transformed t withcolor c0;</div><div> endfor</div><div> endfor</div><div> draw (P1--(P1+(b, 0))--(P1+(b, b))--(P1+(0,b))--cycle) transformed t;</div><div> P2:=(P1+(0, b))transformed t;</div><div> label.lrt("bluepart c", P2);</div><div> label.lrt("="&decimal blau, P2+(0, -3mm));</div><div> label.urt("latex2html version 2002 - 1", (0,0)); </div><div> endfor </div><div> </div><div>endfig;</div><div><br></div><div>end</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>28. 6. 2016 v 21:57, Bruce Mutton <<a href="mailto:bruce@tomo.co.nz" target="_blank">bruce@tomo.co.nz</a>>:</div><br><div><div><div><div>
<div>I also am mildly frustrated that colours in plan do not match elevation. Your solution sounds like night mare to edit subsequently however.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe better approach would be to work on a graded map-fg colour that changes appropriately based on altitude of nearby stations and maybe point altitude or dimensions for plan.</div><div>And a simple gradation for elevations. </div><div><br></div><div>To date i have been using similar approach to Footleg.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Bruce</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Samsung device, hence the typo's</div></div></div></div></div><span>_______________________________________________<br>Therion mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Therion@speleo.sk" target="_blank">Therion@speleo.sk</a><br><a href="http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion" target="_blank">http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion</a><br></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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