Ah, I see... well, that's doable although not necessarily ideal. Thanks to you both!
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Ryan May <rma...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:22 AM, Erik Tollerud <erik.tolle...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> I'm hoping to generate a line plot where the color of each pixel on >> the plot is given by linearly interpolating the colormap from each >> point specified in the line, instead of having the whole line be a >> solid color. I can "mock this up" by doing a scatter plot where the >> points are much closer together than the screen resolution, but that >> seems inelegant, and sometimes produces weird output. So is there a >> way to do effectively the same thing with a line plot or somehow >> specify this behavior in scatter? > > IIRC, the backends that matplotlib uses (Gtk, Agg, etc.) only support a > single color per line, so breaking up the line into different > segments/points is really your only option. Instead of scatter, you can > break up your line into separate sections and have them colormapped for you, > using a LineCollection. > > Ryan > > -- > Ryan May > Graduate Research Assistant > School of Meteorology > University of Oklahoma > Sent from Norman, Oklahoma, United States -- Erik Tollerud Graduate Student Center For Cosmology Department of Physics and Astronomy 2142 Frederick Reines Hall University of California, Irvine Office Phone: (949)824-2587 Cell: (651)307-9409 etoll...@uci.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
