[pstricks] Re : Lines (curves) with gradient color...

[Herbert Voss]

Werner Grundlingh wrote:
> Dear Herbert,
>
> The code below was sent by Manuel Luque roughly 2 months ago in reply
> to a question I had with colouring a line (or curve) with a gradient.
> Reading through the Postscript code I notice that the final line is
> made up of short 'strokes' of line segments, each a colour increment
> apart. This naive approach works, but clearly shows around (sharp)
> curve bends. Is there a better way to do this using postscript so that
> the resulting curve is smooth with colour changes? ...almost like
> plotting (say) 'plotpoints' of the actual curve that is clipped, each
> a colour increment apart?
>   
in Manuels examples you have 1000 different colors for one line
and it is no problem to choose 5000 or more.

> Would this be a property that may be added in future
> releases/revisions to pst-slpe or pst-grad? The ideal, of course,
> would be to specify the options for a line (or parametric curve) using
> a similar notation as suggested by pst-slpe
>   fillstyle=slopes,slopecolors=0 1 1 1  1 0 0 0  2 1 1 1  3
> for example.
>   
I cannot see the advantage in difference to Manuels code.  It is only
another color model with specific intermediate colors.

Herbert