gmt-fork/doc/rst/source/gallery/ex19.rst

.. _example_19:

(19) Color patterns on maps
---------------------------

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
:doc:`grdmath </grdmath>`, :doc:`makecpt </makecpt>`, and
:doc:`grdimage </grdimage>` to draw pleasing color
backgrounds on maps, and overlay
:doc:`coast </coast>` clip paths to have the
patterns change at the coastlines. The middle panel demonstrates a
simple :doc:`coast </coast>` 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 PNG raster
format). The text GMT in the center is an off-line PostScript file
that was overlaid using :doc:`image </image>`. The final panel in the 3 by 1
:doc:`subplot </subplot>` sequence repeats the top panel except that the land and sea images
have changed places.

.. literalinclude:: /_verbatim/ex19.txt
   :language: bash

.. figure:: /_images/ex19.*
   :width: 500 px
   :align: center

   Using color patterns and additional PostScript material in illustrations.