Maybe the issue is with the colormap not having an alpha? Does this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10127284/overlay-imshow-plots-in-matplotlib help?
Otherwise, you might file a bug at https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new -Sterling On Nov 20, 2015, at 4:46PM, Brian Merchant <bhmerch...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > In order to get circles such that their coloring is radially symmetric, with > center being the darkest, and exponential decay in color as one moves farther > away from the center along the radius, I used imshow with clip_path using > Circle patches. > > Here's a toy script that overlaps two such circles: > https://gist.github.com/bmer/7063cc2dd09f1b80a252 > > As you can see if you run the script (or, if you follow this link: > http://i.imgur.com/H9jEAZ3.png), even though the alpha is set at 0.5, there > doesn't seem to be proper "color mixing" occurring (we should see a result > that is symmetric along the x-axis). > > Why is that, and what could I do to fix this issue? > > Kind regards, > Brian > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741551&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
