Furthermore, I think there is some work being done to add functionality to the Norm to allow specifying a middle value along with a vmin and a vmax.
Ben Root On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 3:20 PM, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote: > On 2015/06/05 8:17 AM, Sourish Basu wrote: > > Very often the "zero" of an anomaly is not at the center of the extrema, > > and requires creating a custom diverging colormap anyway (see attached > > example). > > Reminder: in matplotlib, color mapping is done with the combination of a > colormap and a norm. This allows one to design a norm to handle the > mapping, including any nonlinearity or difference between the handling > of positive and negative values. This is more general than customizing > a colormap; once you have a norm to suit your purpose, you can use it > with any colormap. > > Maybe this is actually what you are already doing, but I wanted to point > it out here in case some readers are not familiar with this > colormap+norm strategy. > > Eric > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
