From: Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: shading with stitching functions
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 18:01:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4592A6E0.9010805@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00612270843n5a7ef120t10e7196654274bbd@mail.gmail.com>
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On 12/27/06, Peter Rolf wrote:
>> Hi Mojca,
>>
>> this is also on my wishlist (and christmas is over). Currently I use
>> several color gradients in a row, to simulate the same effect. But sadly
>> this way is too viewer dependent (rendering is a matter of luck with
>> every new version), not to mention the big size. So if there would be a
>> cleaner solution, I would be a happy man.
>>
>> I'm willing to help, but I haven't looked into specials yet. Give me
>> some time for reading and some more time for understanding... ;)
>
> With Hans's hint I finally got some kind of result. However, the
> numbers in the stream seem to influence the colors, but not in the way
> I want them to. I have to do some further explorations. Does anyone
> know how to convert PS to PDF without compression?
>
I used
\pdfcompresslevel=0
with your example code.
> Btw: TikZ supports such shadings, so if you don't necessary need a
> metapost graphic, you can take a look at it as well. Here's an example
>>from the manual:
>
I need them as mp graphic, but it shouldn't hurt to look into that.
> \usemodule[tikz]
> \starttext
> \pgfdeclarehorizontalshading{myshadingA}
> {1cm}{rgb(0cm)=(1,0,0); color(2cm)=(green); color(4cm)=(blue)}
> \pgfuseshading{myshadingA}
> \stoptext
>
> (I've just found out that it uses another aproach for "sampled
> functions", perhaps I'll have more chances to figure out how to
> implement it that way.)
>
> Mojca
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-26 22:48 Mojca Miklavec
2006-12-27 8:44 ` Hans Hagen
2006-12-27 13:01 ` Peter Rolf
2006-12-27 16:43 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-12-27 17:01 ` Peter Rolf [this message]
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