Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-06-01 Thread Vincent Schut
On 06/01/2010 02:56 AM, Oz Nahum wrote: hi andre, thanks for your reply, do you know where I can find more documentation about this ? check http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#string-formatting Regards, VS.

[Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Oz Nahum
Hi Guys, I'm breaking my head how to use scientific numbering on color bar: I use the following code to plot data from multiple files, would be great if someone could direct me, becuase the numbers I have are 0.0013 et. and what ever I do, the number just go over each other: for i in

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Oz Nahum
Hi, I wanted to be more clear: the numbers on my figure's color bar range from 0 to 1.7, but mpl writes the following numbers: 0., 0.000250,0.50,0.000750, etc. This is totally not somthing I can use, it looks horrible. I'm also attaching the image ... -- Oz Nahum Graduate Student

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Oz Nahum
found a solution after 2 hours ... colorbar(ax=ax1, orientation='horizontal',format='%.3f') now, I need to know how to set up limits for all the images which are exactly the same limits. So far I'm failing with the use of boundaries Would be happy to know -- Oz Nahum Graduate Student

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Benjamin Root
Oz, Some plotting functions like pcolor and imshow have keyword args for vmin/vmax where you can explicitly set the min and maximum values for the colorscale. There are some more complicated things you can do with the colormap that are more generic to all plotting functions as well, but I would

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Oz Nahum
Hi Thanks for the answer, actually, I always use show and plot, I have no clue how to use the functions you suggested ... I'll look into it. Do you have an idea where I can find a description of the keyword format '%.3f' is nice, but still not scientific format... is this like Fortran? On

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Andre Walker-Loud
Hi Thanks for the answer, actually, I always use show and plot, I have no clue how to use the functions you suggested ... I'll look into it. Do you have an idea where I can find a description of the keyword format '%.3f' is nice, but still not scientific format... you can use '%.3e'

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Oz Nahum
hi andre, thanks for your reply, do you know where I can find more documentation about this ? Thanks, On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Andre Walker-Loud walksl...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Thanks for the answer, actually, I always use show and plot, I have no clue how to use the functions you

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Andre Walker-Loud
Hi Oz, Sorry, I am not familiar with what you are trying to do with your plots. Everything I have learned is from trial and error, the gallery page http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/gallery.html and the user manual http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/contents.html Good luck, Andre

Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

2010-05-31 Thread Benjamin Root
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:51 PM, Oz Nahum nahu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Thanks for the answer, actually, I always use show and plot, I have no clue how to use the functions you suggested ... I'll look into it. Do you have an idea where I can find a description of the keyword format '%.3f'