On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Chloe Lewis <chle...@berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Lab Rat, Ben;
>
> Yes, you could use the ternary code I've put together to do the CAC plots
> in 2D; defining a complete triangular grid and triangular patches would be
> easy.
>
> If I'm reading the examples correctly, all the third-dimension information
> duplicates the color information.
>
> They're simpler than they look, Ben, which is part of their charm; we use
> them for any mixture of three elements where a+b+c is constant, so really
> they're 2D data. (Why bother, people ask? Because which of the elements is
> most interesting varies with the mixture and use, so we like having all
> three axes labeled. Note: many versions get one of the axes backwards.)
>
> &C
>
>
Chloe,

For right now, I think we will just leave it to people utilizing your code
as is for right now.  Eventually, I would like to see about creating a
proper projection and axes object to provide general functionality, but I
will not be able to work on that for about a month.

Ben Root
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