> You want to make a kernel density estimate (a.k.a. a "heatmap").
Thanks for the link, i'll look into it and compare it to the suggested hexbin(). > This approach would > likely > be a bit slow if you have a very large number of points, though. It's > usually less visually messy to just plot the image Well, that's not an option. I once tried to create a 'normal' scatterplot of my data (it's a couple of million points), and that took a *long* time. Plus, it made me see a 700M pdf file for the first time in my life ;) Cheers, Andreas. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
