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On 6/14/2015 11:26 PM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
Your example uses just two colours, while TikZ uses five and I don't know how to translate this "ball shading" to MP (I know or at least knew how to do it in plain PostScript and could dig it up; I think it uses function shading with predefined colours at predefined distances, but it's all a single shading (a single function), not a composition of multiple sections).
Ok, as I suppose you need it for you thesis ... a new beta ... I didn't play with values for the circular one but here's a linear: \startMPpage fill fullsquare scaled 50pt withshademethod "linear" withshadevector (0,1) withshadestep ( withshadefraction .3 withshadecolors (red,green) ) withshadestep ( withshadefraction .5 withshadecolors (green,blue) ) withshadestep ( withshadefraction .7 withshadecolors (blue,red) ) withshadestep ( withshadefraction 1 withshadecolors (red,yellow) ) ; fill fullsquare scaled 50pt shifted(60pt,0) withshademethod "linear" withshadevector (0,1) withshadecolors (red,green) ; \stopMPpage so the withshadestep is new Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------