How Do I Define a Custom Palette for a Contour Plot or Surface Plot?
The primary controls for defining colors for 3D surface or contour plots are accessed on the Surface Specifications dialog obtained by clicking the Surface specs button on the Plot: Fitting tab of the All Options plot customization dialog. (Display the All Options dialog by double-clicking on the outer background area of the graph.) On 3D XYZ surface plots (or contour plots, which are projections of 3D surfaces onto a 2-dimensional plane) STATISTICA uses a default color palette consisting of 10 colors ranging from dark green through light greens, yellows, and oranges to shades of red. This color palette can be viewed in the Defining colors area on the bottom half of the Surface Specifications dialog. The number of colors in the palette can be set anywhere in the range from 2 to 11 in the Number of defining colors box, and the individual color blocks can be changed by clicking the arrow at the right side of each color window. Note that you can make global changes to the color palette on
