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I'm using Ruleplot[] to plot the rules of my cellular automota. I'm using multiple 'colors' (= number of states $k$ ) and I want to color them a different color than the default grayscale. The documentation says to use ColorRules. In ColorRules I found that if no rules are found ColorFunction is used as default. I want to use ColorFunction -> "Rainbow" but when I try it I get an error.

RulePlot[CellularAutomaton[{5^3, 5, {1, 1}}], ColorRules -> {}, 
    ColorFunction -> "Rainbow"]

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I don't want to manually provide ColorRules->{0 -> Red, 1 -> Orange, etc} because when I change $k$ I don't want to change all the colors by hand.

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    $\begingroup$ does RulePlot[CellularAutomaton[{5^3, 5, {1, 1}}]] /. {GrayLevel[g_], r_Rectangle} :> {ColorData["Rainbow"][g], r} give what you need? $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Sep 23, 2020 at 21:31
  • $\begingroup$ Yes it does! It feels a bit like an ugly solution but it does the trick. I will keep this question open in case a more proper solution comes by but in the meantime this will keep me happy. $\endgroup$
    – AccidentalTaylorExpansion
    Commented Sep 23, 2020 at 21:42

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Use ColorData[name] as the setting for ColorFunction:

RulePlot[CellularAutomaton[{5^3, 5, {1, 1}}], Appearance -> "Arrow", 
 ImageSize -> Large, ColorFunction -> ColorData["Rainbow"]]

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Use ColorFunction -> ColorData["TemperatureMap"] to get

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks this is exactly what I meant $\endgroup$
    – AccidentalTaylorExpansion
    Commented Sep 23, 2020 at 21:56

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