Dear all, I am using matplotlib with a great pleasure, and I enjoy its capabilities. I have recently attended a conference where the invited speaker showed great visualizations of arrays from both experiments and simulations. His plots were basically looking like those produced by imshow, that is a luminance array rendered as a colormap image, but with the additionnal use of a shading, which gives a really great feeling to the image. You can feel the height of each part of the image.
I have tried to find what software could have produced such a plot, and found the ReliefPlot function of Mathematica, which has precisely this purpose : rendering a colormap image from an array with a shading to give the perception of relief. The documentation and its examples are self-explanatory : http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/ref/ReliefPlot.html (look in particular at the first "neat example" at the bottom of that page) The two "live" demonstrations illustrate this plot style quite well too : http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/ReliefShadedElevationMap/ http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/VoronoiImage/ So here are my questions : Is there a trick to generate an image with such a shading in matplotlib ? If not, do you know of a python tool that could help ? Where could I start if I want to code it myself in matplotlib ? Thanks for your help. Best regards, Timothée Lecomte -- Laboratoire Pierre Aigrain, École Normale Supérieure 24, rue Lhomond 75005 Paris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
