type, contrast, brightness
Select the colormap type, brightness and contrast to use in mapplot.
EXAMPLES
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1. To disable psuedo-color plotting.

   0>mapcolor none
   Mapplot colormap: none, contrast: 1 brightness: 0.5.
   0>

2. To select a grey-scale color map.

   0>mapcol grey
   Mapplot colormap: grey, contrast: 1 brightness: 0.5.
   0>

3. To select the current default color colormap:

   0>mapcolor color
   Mapplot colormap: rainbow, contrast: 1 brightness: 0.5.
   0>

4. To change the default colormap to the AIPS TVFIDDLE colormap
   and select it for the next mapplot:

   0>mapcolor aips
   Mapplot colormap: aips, contrast: 1 brightness: 0.5.
   0>

PARAMETERS
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     type  -  The type of colormap to use, selected from:
                none   -   Turn off psuedo-color plotting.
                grey   -   Use a grey-scale ramp [initial default].
                color  -   Use the default RGB colormap.
                aips   -   The AIPS TVFIDDLE colormap.
                heat   -   Flame colored colormap.
                ramp   -   This is a three ramp colormap, based on
                           one in Iraf's ximtool.
                red    -   Red ramp.
                green  -   Green ramp.
                blue   -   Blue ramp.

brightness -  The brightness of the color bar between 0 and 1.
              With the gray-scale colormap, the image will be
              completely black for brightness <= 0, and completely
              white at brightness >= 1.

              The initial default is 0.5, which places the center
              of the colormap at the center of the color bar.

contrast   -  The contrast of the colormap, expressed as the reciprocal
              of the width of the colormap on the displayed color bar.
              The initial default of 1.0 spreads the colormap over the
              length of the color bar. Higher contrasts compress the
              colormap, while lower contrasts expand it.

CONTEXT
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Mapplot can display maps using contours, and/or grey-scale or
psuedo-color. The colormap command provides a means of selecting
these options prior to running mapplot. There are three classes
of colormap that you can choose:

   none - This turns off grey-scale and color plotting entirely.

   grey - This selects the default grey-scale colormap.

  color - All colormaps except those named above, are of class
          'color'. Specifying 'color' to the colormap command
          selects the last colormap of class 'color' that was
          previously selected. Thus after selecting 'aips' once,
          either interactively in 'mapplot', or via the mapcolor
          command, and then subsequent requests for 'color'
          install the 'aips' colormap. Other 'color' color-maps
          are listed above under the explanation of the 'type'
          argument.

You also have the option of specifying how the colormap will be
mapped onto the mapplot image intensity. By default, the contrast
is set to 1 and the brightness to 0.5. This fits the colormap exactly
within the color bar plotted under the mapplot image. The center of
the colormap can be moved up or down the color bar by changing the
colormap brightness. This is best done interactively in mapplot,
but can also be set on the command line with the mapcolor command.
The width of the colormap compared to that of the color bar can also
be changed by altering the contrast. High contrast equates to a
colormap that occupies only a small fraction of the color bar. Low
contrast equates to a colormap extent that exceeds the width of the
color bar, such that only a small range of its colors are visible.
Negative contrasts act the same as positive contrasts except that the
colormap is reversed. Again, the contrast is best set interactively
in mapplot, but can be preset with the 'mapcolor' command.

Note that to completely flip the sense of a color map you should
first run the mapcolor command without arguments, to see what the
current brightness and contrast are. Then run the mapcolor command and
substitute -contrast for the original contrast, and 1-brightness for
the original brightness.

To see what the current colormap settings are, invoke the colormap
command with no arguments.

Note that changes to the colormap selection, brightness and
contrast within mapplot remain in place after you exit mapplot.
It is thus possible to set these parameters interactively in mapplot
for subsequent mapplot plots. In particular, this is invaluable for
making hard copies in color after setting the desired colors on
an interactive device.

Also see 'help mapfunc' for details on how to specify the transfer
function and data range to plot.

Limitations
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When using this command note that:

1. Some devices are not capable of displaying color. In such
   cases RGB colormap types will be translated into grey-levels. This
   is device dependant and the results may not be what you expect.

2. Some devices can't even display different levels of grey.
   On such devices a random-stipple pattern is used to simulate
   different grey-levels.

3. If you are using an old version of PGPLOT that does not have
   the PGIMAG call, then only grey-scale colormaps are generally
   available on hard-copy devices.

RELATED COMMANDS
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mapplot  -  Display map and beam images.
xyrange  -  Set the boundaries of the sub-image to be displayed in mapplot.
loglevs  -  Set logarithmic contour levels for use in 'mapplot'.
mapfunc  -  Change the transfer function used in mapplot.
mapplot  -  Display map and beam images.
beamloc  -  Change when and where mapplot plots the clean beam ellipse.