3D Plot Custom colormap

[DarkLordOfG]

I am confused at how the custom colormap works.  If I select point plot and graph a few points it seems the colors of the points maps one-to-one to the colormap.  See the VI and select point as the plot style.  The first point is red, next is purple, then blue.

However, if you select surface and do the plot of a surface it seems like it maps the colormap based on Z value?  Try by selecting cwSurface as plot style.

What I am ultimately trying to do is plot a HSL colorwheel as one plot and then HSL points as the other plot on the 3D plot.  I can generate the points but I am having trouble with the colorwheel.

Also, is there anyway to have the projected point be a different color type than the actual point?  Any help would be appreciated.

John

[Ben]

Hi John,

Starting with reply #7 of this thread

http://forums.ni.com/ni/board/message?board.id=170&message.id=143663&jump=true

I offer a "worst case" 4-d graph example.

Please read through that thread, down load the example and play with it a bit.

It sounds like your "ColorMapStyle" is not correct for what you are trying to do.

Here is a preview of that example.

Ben