On Sep 19, 2013, at 10:14AM, Skip Montanaro wrote: > >> Separately, if your blue data are so quantized, you might use the blue data >> to choose a color for an axvspan (or axhspan, I forget which is which) to >> indicate how certain regions of time have different values of blue data. >> Then you would only need one set of axes, and your x,y labels would indicate >> what you want. > > This also works, though I (and anyone looking at the graph) would have > to remember the mapping between color and numeric value. If I was a > synethete this might work, but I doubt most people would automatically > recall the mapping. :-)
No assumption of super-human recollection or inference abilities . I would add a figure or axes legend with proxy artists for the appropriate color mappings, or even just a bunch of text boxes with the text label colored appropriately. You may be interested in my answer to a stackoverflow question [1]. -Sterling [1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17086847/box-around-text-in-matplotlib/17092777#17092777 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LIMITED TIME SALE - Full Year of Microsoft Training For Just $49.99! 1,500+ hours of tutorials including VisualStudio 2012, Windows 8, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, MVC 4, more. BEST VALUE: New Multi-Library Power Pack includes Mobile, Cloud, Java, and UX Design. Lowest price ever! Ends 9/20/13. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
