"Steven Licciardi" <steven_licciardi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I am drawing a contour plot, which is currently grey scale, using all
> 256 greys. I would like to try using colour instead, but cannot
> determine a suitable color scale (for instance if I use all colours
> between 0 and 16777215 it looks very bad). Can anyone suggest
> possible colour scales I might use (preferabbly with of the order of
> 256 colours as this seems to work well with grey scale).

"Aaron Queenan" <aqueenan_DieSpammerDie_@contingent.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Steven Licciardi" <steven_licciardi@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:bec5275.0404290732.660e32ad@posting.google.com...
> > I am drawing a contour plot, which is currently grey scale, using all
> > 256 greys. I would like to try using colour instead, but cannot
> > determine a suitable color scale (for instance if I use all colours
> > between 0 and 16777215 it looks very bad). Can anyone suggest
> > possible colour scales I might use (preferabbly with of the order of
> > 256 colours as this seems to work well with grey scale).
>
> Use HSL colour, and vary the hue component across the colours of the
> rainbow, while keeping the saturation and lightness the same.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron Queenan.
>
>