Hi,

On 21.06.06, Joerg Lehmann wrote:
> On 20.06.06, John Owens wrote:
> > --- Joerg Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 
> > > > 1) The one you state above; I'd advocate possibly doing a gradient
> > > > between the first and last color of the most detailed palette entry
> > > > (so if a palette had discrete colors for 3-10 colors, use p[10][0]
> > > > and p[10][9]).
> > > > 
> > > > 2) What happens if you don't define enough colors? For instance
> > > > most of the colorbrewer schemes only start defining at 3 colors
> > > > (there's no 1 or 2 color schemes). In that case if I needed only 2 
> > > > colors I'd want to take the first two elements of the least detailed
> > > > palette entry.
> > > 
> > > In some way your questions show that the concept becomes indeed a bit
> > > shaky.
> > 
> > Well, to be fair, with any discrete scheme this would come up. The 
> > first question is "is it useful to have a discrete scheme indexed by 
> > total number of colors and by color number?" No surprise that I think
> > the answer is "yes"; 
> 
> When posting my initial scheme, this was also obvious to me. On the
> other hand, it's not what a color palette usually means: an ordered
> collection of a finite number of colors. But we could reconcile
> these two pictures of a palette as described in my other mail, but
> considering the trivial mapping
>   [[c11], [c21, c22], [c31, c32, c33], ...] ->
>   [c11, c21, c22, c31, c32, c33, ...]

I think this is a very bad idea. The color c11 and c21 should not be
used together. They don't belong into the same palette.


André

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