# Good-looking luminosity function plot

I'm trying to make a good-looking photopic luminosity function plot. So I want to make colored plot, but its colormap should depend on X values. Is it possible with pgfplots?

I'll also appreciate any ideas on such colored plot.

Here's MWE, sorry for so many coordinates. I haven't changed colors to [violet ... red] yet.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
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axis y line=left,
ymax=1.1,xmin=390,xmax=710,
xlabel=$\lambda$,
ylabel=$Relative~Sensivity$]
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\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}


You can use the point meta key; the x value uses the available x coordinates as point meta data. For further details, refer to pages 157-158 of the pgfplots manual.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
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axis x line=bottom,
axis y line=left,
ymax=1.1,xmin=390,xmax=710,
xlabel=$x$,ylabel=$\sin x$,
xlabel=$\lambda$,
ylabel=$Relative~Sensivity$,
point meta=x]
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