Hi all,
I would like to have mp choose a (transparent) color randomly from a predefined
list. My naive approach was (let’s restrict it to three colors):
\startuniqueMPgraphic{colortest}
save mycolor ; color mycolor[] ;
mycolor[1] := (0.07, 0.21, 0.65) ;
mycolor[2] := (0.6, 0.6, 0.4) ;
mycolor[3] := (0.5, 0.8, 0.5) ;
path p ;
p := unitsquare scaled 2cm ;
for i=1 upto 3:
fill p shifted (i*2.5cm, 0) withcolor transparent
(1,0.3,mycolor[round(uniformdeviate(i))]) ;
endfor ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic
\starttext
\uniqueMPgraphic{colortest}
\stoptext
Is there a better approach? The selection isn’t random enough for my taste :-)
Sometimes, in my real document, I get black color, even though black isn’t in
the list, so I suspect that mp doesn’t get a correct value for
mycolor[round(uniformdeviate(i))]. And finally: how could I define the colors
in a way that I could also use them outside of mp? Or do I have to copy-paste
the definitions into \definecolor’s?
All best
Thomas
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