Cheers, I managed to get the colours consistent with your suggestion. One
more thing I forgot to ask in my original post, is there a way to display a
colour legend with the graph plot?

On Fri, 26 Feb 2016 at 11:54 Joel Moberg <[email protected]> wrote:

> You can use matplotlib and a colormap for this. I think you need to create
> a vp that's only for the colors, the documentation says which types are
> accepted for colors. You can get a color with a cmap by pasing a value from
> 0 - 1.
>
> See this example for using a cmap:
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> cmap = plt.get_cmap('cool')
> cmap(0.4)
> (0.40000000000000002, 0.59999999999999998, 1.0, 1.0)
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 12:35 PM, Alexandra Diem <[email protected]
> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to use graph-tool to track concentrations on a network and was
>> wondering what the best way would be to obtain consistent colour scales for
>> a vertex property? I track the concentration of a substance as a vertex
>> property and then use that as the vertex_fill_color in graph_draw because I
>> would like to visualise the change in concentration over the network over
>> time. This works great, but it appears that every time I plot the graph the
>> colormap is rescaled to the minimum and maximum values in the vertex
>> property. So if my values range from 0.0 to 0.4 and I use the Blues
>> colormap 0.0 is white and 0.4 is dark blue. If in the next time step my
>> values range from 0.0 to 0.6 then 0.6 is dark blue and 0.4 is now a
>> different shade of blue. Instead, if I know 0.0 would be the minimum value
>> and 1.0 would be the maximum I would like to consistently plot my graphs
>> using that scaling, so that 0.4 always has the same shade of blue. I hope
>> this all made sense.
>> Thanks!
>> Alexandra
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