Hello, I am experiencing strange behavior using mpl_toolkits.basemap.Basemap. My understanding is that pcolormesh is faster than pcolor, and thus preferable. Here is a minimal example (below) where I get a different plot from pcolormesh than from pcolor.
On two systems (mac os x 10.9.5; Ubuntu 11.04 (GNU/Linux 2.6.32.28 x86_64); basemap 1.0.7 on the mac and 1.0.8 on the Ubuntu machine; both using matplotlib 1.4.2) I get the expected grid of random colors from pcolor, but a monochrome plot from pcolormesh. Is this expected? Are there circumstances in which I should be using pcolor instead of pcolormesh? Is this a bug in matplotlib or in basemap? Many thanks! Tim -- Timothy W. Hilton Assistant Project Scientist School of Engineering University of California, Merced thil...@ucmerced.edu #================================================== # minimal example import matplotlib.pyplot as plt from mpl_toolkits.basemap import Basemap import numpy as np def setup_map(ax): m = Basemap(width=8.0e6, height=6.5e6, projection='aeqd', lat_0=54, lon_0=-105, resolution='l', area_thresh=1000, rsphere=6371007.181000, fix_aspect=True, ax=ax) m.drawcoastlines() m.drawcountries() m.drawstates() return(m) # create pseudo-data with longitudes and latitudes lon, lat = np.meshgrid(np.arange(-180, 180), np.arange(90, -90, -1)) data = np.random.rand(*lon.shape) * 100 # two-panel figure fig, ax = plt.subplots(nrows=1, ncols=2) # plot pseoddata in left panel using pcolormesh m0 = setup_map(ax[0]) cm = m0.pcolormesh(lon, lat, data, latlon=True, vmin=0.0, vmax=100.0, cmap=plt.cm.get_cmap("Blues")) plt.colorbar(cm, ax=ax[0]) ax[0].set_title('pcolormesh') # plot pseoddata in left panel using pcolor m1 = setup_map(ax[1]) cm = m1.pcolor(lon, lat, data, latlon=True, vmin=0.0, vmax=100.0, cmap=plt.cm.get_cmap("Blues")) plt.colorbar(cm, ax=ax[1]) ax[1].set_title('pcolor') plt.show() ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users