FW: Colouring by altitude
Olly and Marco are right, of course, that consistent colouring between plan and elevation does help in visualising the correspondemce between different parts of the cave. This does not *need* to be by elevation (although that can sometimes be useful) and indeed that might even cause confusion where separate parts of the cave are at the same elevation. We colour by map, which is a reasonable proxy for doing so by passage. The problem is that there is not, as far as I am aware, any method of directly choosing the colours, as Therion does that for you. That makes it important to list individual components the same way in both plan and elevation and that is not always possible. The best answer would be to allow colour choice, so that the individual draughtsman can choose exactly how he wishes to display his drawing. I, of course, have no idea at all as to how easy it would be to implement this. Graham
Hello Graham, [cut] On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 12:39 PM, Graham Mullan <graham.mullan@coly.org.uk>wrote:
We colour by map,
[cut] Do you mean "scrap"? Or is it possible to colour by map? I'm asking because AFAIK it isn't possible to include scraps from different projections in the same map. Thanks, Marco
Do you mean "scrap"? Or is it possible to colour by map? I'm asking because AFAIK it isn't possible to include scraps from different projections in the same map.
You can colour the map-foreground by altitude, scrap or map (5.3.11 Therion Book pg 54). You can have multiple maps per pdf output of the same projection, or include previously generated pdf outputs (as a flat image via map-image statement) in a new output. This is how to get Therion to put generate outputs with differing projections in the same output. When contemplating 'colour by altitude' it is important to note that the resolution is never better than 'scrap by scrap' - ie each scrap can only have one altitude colour. Bruce
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