On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 5:30 AM, Michael Friendly <frien...@yorku.ca> wrote:
> I have a diagram to be included in latex, where all my figures are .eps
> graphics (so pdflatex is not an
> option)
You could use the pdf() device and then use pdf2ps to convert to PostScript.
>and I want to achieve something
> like the following: three concentric filled circles varying in lightness or
> saturation. It is easiest to do this using
> transparency, but in my test using the postscript driver, the transparent
> color fills do not appear. Is it
> correct that postscript() does not support transparency?
>
> circle <-function (radius = 1, segments=61) {
> angles <- (0:segments)*2*pi/segments
> radius * cbind( cos(angles), sin(angles))
> }
>
> plot(1:5, 1:5, type='n', xlim=c(-1,5), ylim=c(-1,5), xlab='', ylab='',
> asp=1, xaxt="n", yaxt="n")
>
> #clrs <- trans.colors("lightblue", alpha=c(.2, .4, .6)) ## from heplots
There's now an adjustcolor() function in base R to do this.
> package
> clrs <- c("#ADD8E633", "#ADD8E666", "#ADD8E699")
>
> c1 <- circle(3)
> polygon( c1, col=clrs[1], border="lightblue")
> polygon(.67*c1, col=clrs[2], border="lightblue")
> polygon(.33*c1, col=clrs[3], border="lightblue")
>
> arrows(-1, 0, 5, 0, angle=10, length=.2, lwd=2, col="darkgray")
> arrows( 0, -1, 0, 5, angle=10, length=.2, lwd=2, col="darkgray")
>
> One alternative that sort of works is to use the png() driver, and then
> convert fig.png fig.eps
> but I need very high resolution to make the real diagram legible.
>
> It might suffice to use hcl() colors to approximate what I've done with
> transparency,
> but I don't know how to start with a given color ("lightblue") and achieve
> roughly
> similar resuts.
It would be useful to have an alpha-blending function for this sort of
purpose, but I don't think we have one.
-thomas
--
Thomas Lumley
Professor of Biostatistics
University of Auckland
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