PLCOL1(3plplot)

💅 PLCOL1 — like, the PLplot API, bestie 💅

okay so this is the plcol1 page from the PLplot API. yes we're doing man pages now, and yes it's gonna slay.

plcol1(col1)

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

plcol1(col1)

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one arg, iconic behavior 💖

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so plcol1 sets the color for cmap1 (peep the PLplot documentation for the full lore, iykyk). that's the entire job and it does it gorgeously.

Redacted form: plcol1(col1)

also fun fact, this function is literally used in examples 12 and 21 — so if you wanna see it in the wild, go look there 🦋

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• col1 (PLFLT(3plplot), input) — bestie this has to be in the range (0.0-1.0), no cap. it gets mapped to a color using the continuous cmap1 palette, which by default ranges from blue → the background color → red. gorgeous gradient, honestly main character energy 🌈

and listen, the cmap1 palette can also be straightforwardly changed by the user with plscmap1(3plplot) or plscmap1l(3plplot) — so you're not stuck with the default, you can customize it however you want 💅

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Many developers (who are credited at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/credits.php) have contributed to PLplot over its long history. and like, a LOT of them, over a genuinely long time. legends, all of them 🫶

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

PLplot documentation at http://plplot.sourceforge.net/documentation.php — go read it, it's giving essential ⭐

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and that's the page!! 🍓 this cute lil man page came to you from the PLplot API, dated August, 2026, and it's filed under PLCOL1(3plplot) 💜 bye bestie, go set some colors 💖