On Mo, 2010-11-01 at 19:54 +0000, Joseph Wright wrote: > On 01/11/2010 19:34, Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote: > > Hi Joseph > > > > On Sa, 2010-10-30 at 16:51 +0100, Joseph Wright wrote: > >> Did you try varying the other corners of each square? From my quick > >> tests, I think that the colour is based on the average of the four > >> corners. So in your case everything is moved up as three of the four > >> corners are big values and only one is zero. > > > > Hmm but that would mean, that the color of the plot would differ from > > the colorbar, too. Nevertheless, I tried that and more or less the same > > result showed up, except of the two other corners which I changed to > > z=0.0 > > > > Any other idea? I'm kinda out of luck with this. In a *bigger* example > > GNUPlot comes up with a dark blue diagonal as expected so I guess this > > is a PGFPlots thing. > > > > Best regards, > > Stefan > > Reading the manual, I find the option 'shader = flat corner', which > seems to be what you want: > > \documentclass{minimal} > > \usepackage{tikz} > \usepackage{pgfplots} > > \pgfplotsset{compat=1.3} > > \begin{document} > \begin{tikzpicture} > \begin{axis}[view={0}{90}, colorbar] > \addplot3[surf, shader = flat corner] file {test.dat}; > \end{axis} > \end{tikzpicture} > \end{document}
Yes that's it! Reading the manual the default shader uses the mean color of four adjacent entries. This is exactly the behavior I noticed but in this particular case I want the "exact" value and no mean. Thanks for all your help! Best regards, Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pgfplots-features mailing list Pgfplots-features@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgfplots-features