[Therion] Really bad idea?

[Marco Menchise]

Thanks Martin, I had a look at the results by using mptopdf (because the
website you linked seems unreachable right now).

It seems quite good. I only need to find a way to integrate it in a layout
:-)

Marco


On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 12:38 PM, Martin Sluka <martinsluka at mac.com> wrote:

> I just found a Metapost example generating color transition, so it should
> work:
>
> http://www.ursoswald.ch/metapost/tutorial/Colors.html
>
> If you add this code to Metapost viewer ( http://www.tlhiv.org/mppreview/ ),
> you may see it:
>
> u:=25;                    % 25 = 25bp = 25 PostScript points = 30/72 in
> wi:=10;                   % width  in units u
> he:=10;                   % height in units u
> hoehe:=he*u;              % height
> breite:=wi*u;             % width
> pair P[], xy[];
> path p[];
> transform t;
> color c[];
> n:=20; rd:=0.2; b:=(wi-2rd)/4;
>
> P0:=(0, 0);
> t:=identity scaled u shifted P0;
>
>   fill (0, 0)--(breite, 0)--(breite, hoehe)--(0, hoehe)--cycle withcolor
> .9white;
>   draw (0, 0)--(breite, 0)--(breite, hoehe)--(0, hoehe)--cycle;
>
>   for k=0 upto 3:
>     blau:=.3333k;
>     P1:=(rd, he-rd-b)+k*b*(1, -1);
>     for i=0 upto n-1:
>       for j=0 upto n-1:
> xy0:=P1+(i*b/n, j*b/n);
> p0:=xy0--(xy0+(b/n, 0))--(xy0+(b/n, b/n))--(xy0+(0, b/n))--cycle;
> c0:=((i+1)/n, (j+1)/n, blau);
> fill p0 transformed t withcolor c0;
>       endfor
>     endfor
>     draw (P1--(P1+(b, 0))--(P1+(b, b))--(P1+(0,b))--cycle) transformed t;
>     P2:=(P1+(0, b))transformed t;
>     label.lrt("bluepart c", P2);
>     label.lrt("="&decimal blau, P2+(0, -3mm));
>     label.urt("latex2html version 2002 - 1", (0,0));
>   endfor
>
> endfig;
>
> end
>
>
>
>
> 28. 6. 2016 v 21:57, Bruce Mutton <bruce at tomo.co.nz>:
>
> I also am mildly frustrated that colours in plan do not match elevation.
> Your solution sounds like night mare to edit subsequently however.
>
> 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.
> And a simple gradation for elevations.
>
> To date i have been using similar approach to Footleg.
>
> Bruce
>
> Sent from my Samsung device, hence the typo's
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