Perfect thank you, no wonder I didnt find it, plt.gca().add_collection(lc)
never found its way to my radar.
Cheers,
Brian
On Sep 7, 2010, at 7:58 PM, Ryan May wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Brian Larsen <balar...@lanl.gov> wrote:
>> Hey all,
>> I think I know the answer here as "no" or something, but say I have a curve
>> I want to plot and I want the color to change along the curve to denote the
>> 3rd variable is there anyway to do this is matplotlib?
>> What I mean is take the simple plot
>> from pylab import *
>> plot(range(30), range(30, 60), lw=10)
>> and say that the 3rd variable is
>> inten = [val ** 2 for val in range(30)]
>> then can the line change color along its length according to a specified
>> color table?
>> In IDL this is done by just giving a color array with the same length as the
>> data then the line changes with the current colortable.
>
> Try this:
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/multicolored_line.html
>
> Ryan
>
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> University of Oklahoma
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