# Changing color according to the y variable
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315
**Category:** Coding Questions
**Created:** [January 24, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315 "2020-01-24T13:54:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@PhilRandom](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PhilRandom)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/1 "2020-01-24T13:54:48Z")
How should one go about changing the color according to the y variable, an ombré of sorts?
Please and Thank You
Best,
Phil
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### Author:  [@glv](https://discourse.processing.org/u/glv)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 1:58pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/2 "2020-01-24T13:58:46Z")
Hello,
[https://processing.org/](https://processing.org/) is a good place to start and has tutorials, references, examples and lists books available.
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### Author:  [@GoToLoop](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GoToLoop)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 2:04pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/3 "2020-01-24T14:04:37Z")
[Processing.org/reference/colorMode\_.html](http://Processing.org/reference/colorMode_.html)
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/4 "2020-01-24T14:10:32Z")
> [@PhilRandom](#):
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> ombré
There is a color selector in Menu tools
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### Author:  [@PhilRandom](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PhilRandom)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 2:14pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/5 "2020-01-24T14:14:28Z")
Thank you all for your quick responses, much appreciated.
Our new question is as follows:
How does one alternate colors in a pattern vís-a-vís a modulus with an if statement?
Thank you again
Best,
Phil
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### Author:  [@Chrisir](https://discourse.processing.org/u/Chrisir)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 2:51pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/6 "2020-01-24T14:51:38Z")
if(i%2 == 0)
fill(255,0,0);
else
fill(0,255,0);
i++;
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### Author:  [@PhilRandom](https://discourse.processing.org/u/PhilRandom)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2020, 7:20pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/changing-color-according-to-the-y-variable/17315/7 "2020-01-24T19:20:37Z")
Very helpful, thank you.
Much appreciated.
Best,
Phil