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I have a raster map in GRASS containing elevation values. I want to display the elevation values in only one color (specificaly blue) but in varying shades of blue. I tried the options in r.colors, but none of those displays the map in monochrome.

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In GRASS shell type:

> r.colors map=elevation color=rules 
> 0 white
> [your maximum elevation value] blue
> end
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Or simply 0% white 100% blue. – Jake Mar 17 '11 at 15:35
I tried creating a shell script containing: #!/bin/sh r.colors map=raster_bulacanOriginal2 color=rules 0 white 300 blue end and GRASS just kept on freezing – teamAngat Mar 17 '11 at 16:22
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It's not freezing, it's expecting input. If you want to use it in a shell script, you need to do something like #!/bin/sh echo -e '0 white\n300 blue' | r.colors map=<mapname> color=rules rules=-, which pipes the color rule to the r.colors command. The rules=- option tells r.colors to expect the rule from the pipe. Or you can save the color rule to a file, and use r.colors map=<mapname> color=rules rules=<rulesfile>. – Jake Mar 17 '11 at 17:16
Thanks! I noticed that the color for the rules only uses color names. Can ASCII colors be used? I tried assigning a HEX color to a certain value and it produced this error: ERROR: bad rule (invalid color name): [-25 #00FFFF] – teamAngat Mar 18 '11 at 8:54
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According to grass.osgeo.org/grass62/manuals/html62_user/r.colors.html, you'd have to write '0 255 255' instead of '#00FFFF'. – underdark♦ Mar 18 '11 at 8:58
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