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Coloring individual elements of a quantity/mesh

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4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
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35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp

Research direction

Start with Directional Tutorial 201, Principal Matching, to understand the selective coloring behavior requested, then inspect polyscope's quantity and mesh coloring APIs. Done means users can color selected elements or provide distinct colors per element while preserving the existing coloring behavior.

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Description

I would like to be able to either color only specific elements of a quantity/mesh, or alternatively, to be able to override the colors, but be able to supply individual colors per element. Specifically, I would like to reproduce the behaviour in Tutorial 201 in Directional:

https://avaxman.github.io/Directional/tutorial/#201-principal-matching

Where only several vectors are colored.

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