<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Jeremy, <div><br></div><div>It looks like the normal of your surfaces is different. I mean the rectangle on the left has an outward normal, the one on the right, an inward one.</div><div>For seen the same colors, you can do two things:</div><div>- modifying the geometry for having all normals oriented in the same sense;</div><div>- turning off the lighting: Tools->Options->Mesh->Enable lighting, or add "Mesh.Light = 0;" at the beginning of your file.</div><div><br></div><div>Ruth</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 24 Apr 2013, at 00:38, jeremy theler <<a href="mailto:jeremy@talador.com.ar">jeremy@talador.com.ar</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br><br>Find attached a simple geometry 2D file with a central square surronded by two <br>symmetrical rectangles. Assume the central square is made of one material and <br>the two rectangles are made of another one. Hence, I have two physical <br>entities, one with the central square and other with the two rectangles.<br><br>Now, for the automatic preparation of figures for a report by means of a bash <br>script, I would like to have gmsh to paint the meshes of the rectangles in one <br>color (say red) and the central square in another one (say green).<br><br>By entering <br><br>Color Green {Surface {12};}<br>Color Red {Surface {14, 16};}<br><br>I get the two rectangles in different kinds of red (see attached png). I have <br>tried to reference the physical entity with no luck.<br><br>Moreover, I did not get how the property Mesh.ColorCarousel works.<br><br><br>BTW, the geo file is just and example I made up in order to ask the question. <br>What I want to accomplish involves more surfaces and physical entities, but <br>the geo files are also only two-dimensional geometries.<br><br>Any help would be appreciated.<br>Thanks in advance.<br>--<br>jeremy<br><br><span><color.geo></span><span><color.png></span>_______________________________________________<br>gmsh mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gmsh@geuz.org">gmsh@geuz.org</a><br>http://www.geuz.org/mailman/listinfo/gmsh<br></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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