GMT 3.1 introduced color patterns and this examples give a few cases of how to use this new feature. We make a phony poster that advertises an international conference on GMT in Honolulu. We use grdmath, makecpt, and grdimage to draw pleasing color backgrounds on maps, and overlay pscoast clippaths to have the patterns change at the coastlines. The middle panel demonstrates a simple pscoast call where the built-in pattern # 86 is drawn at 100 dpi but with the black and white pixels replaced with color combinations. At the same time the ocean is filled with a repeating image of a circuit board (provides in Sun raster format). The text GMT in the center is an off-line PostScript file that was overlaid using psimage. The final panel repeats the top panel except that the land and sea images have changed places (Figure 7.19).
#!/bin/csh # GMT EXAMPLE 19 # # Purpose: Illustrates various color pattern effects for maps # GMT progs: gmtset, grdimage, grdmath, makecpt, pscoast, pstext, psimage # Unix progs: rm # First make a worldmap with graded blue oceans and rainbow continents gmtset COLOR_MODEL rgb grdmath -Rd -I1 Y COSD 2 POW = lat.grd grdmath -Rd -I1 X Y ABS 90 NEQ MUL = lon.grd echo "0 white 1 blue" > lat.cpt makecpt -Crainbow -T-180/180/60 -Z >! lon.cpt grdimage lat.grd -Sl -JI0/6.5i -Clat.cpt -P -K -Y7.5i -B0 >! example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Dc -A5000 -Gc >> example_19.ps grdimage lon.grd -Sl -J -Clon.cpt -O -K >> example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Q >> example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Dc -A5000 -Wthinnest >> example_19.ps echo "0 20 32 0 1 CM 6TH INTERNATIONAL" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Gred -Sthinner >> example_19.ps echo "0 -10 32 0 1 CM GMT CONFERENCE" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Gred -Sthinner >> example_19.ps echo "0 -30 18 0 1 CM Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1, 2008" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Ggreen -Sthinnest \ >> example_19.ps # Then show example of color patterns and placing a PostScript image pscoast -R -J -O -K -Dc -A5000 -Gp100/86:FredByellow -Sp100/circuit.ras -B0 -Y-3.25i \ >> example_19.ps echo "0 30 32 0 1 CM SILLY USES OF" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Glightgreen -Sthinner >> example_19.ps echo "0 -30 32 0 1 CM COLOR PATTERNS" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Gmagenta -Sthinner >> example_19.ps psimage -C3.25i/1.625i/CM -W3i GMT_covertext.eps -O -K >> example_19.ps # Finally repeat 1st plot but exchange the patterns grdimage lon.grd -Sl -J -Clon.cpt -O -K -Y-3.25i -B0 -U"Example 19 in Cookbook" >> example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Dc -A5000 -Gc >> example_19.ps grdimage lat.grd -Sl -J -Clat.cpt -O -K >> example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Q >> example_19.ps pscoast -R -J -O -K -Dc -A5000 -Wthinnest >> example_19.ps echo "0 20 32 0 1 CM 6TH INTERNATIONAL" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Gred -Sthinner >> example_19.ps echo "0 -10 32 0 1 CM GMT CONFERENCE" | pstext -R -J -O -K -Gred -Sthinner >> example_19.ps echo "0 -30 18 0 1 CM Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1, 2008" | pstext -R -J -O -Ggreen -Sthinnest \ >> example_19.ps \rm -f l*.grd l*.cpt .gmt*