Re: defining colors

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Eduardo J. Adam <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear octave users,
> Is It possible to define different colors to the traditional colors used by
> the command plot,  by means of mixing red, blue and green colors and then,
> use this new color for a plot?
> How can I do that?
>
> Eduardo
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Sure!

colors are defined with a 3x1 vector each element between 0 and one or
0 and 255 depending on the function. The first element is the amount
of red, second green, and third is blue.
To plot with and arbitrary color just do

plot(rand(10,1),'-o', 'color', [0.8 0.2 0.2])

I hope this helps

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M. Sc. Juan Pablo Carbajal
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PhD Student
University of Zürich
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