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Generating Colors
Colors are indicated by strings. Most normal colors such as
'red', 'purple', 'green', 'cyan',
etc. should be available. Many colors come in various shades, such
as 'red1', 'red2','red3', 'red4',
which are increasingly darker shades of red.
The graphics module also provides a function for mixing your own
colors numerically. The function color_rgb(red, green, blue)
will return a string representing a color that is a
mixture of the intensities of red, green and blue specified. These
should be ints in the range 0-255. Thus
color_rgb(255, 0, 0) is a bright red, while
color_rgb(130, 0, 130) is a medium magenta.
John Zelle
2006-09-04