Re: [Matplotlib-users] Making a data-driven colormap

2010-03-27 Thread Chloe Lewis
To zoom in on the relevant section of a colorbar -- I convinced myself once that I'd need an auxiliary function to define a new cdict that covers only the current section of the original cdict. (and then define a new colorbar from the cdict, and maybe do a little norming of the data). _seg

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Making a data-driven colormap

2010-03-27 Thread Ariel Rokem
Hi Friedrich, Thanks a lot for your response. I think that you are right - using the vmin/vmax args into imshow (as well as into pcolor) does seem to do what I want. Great! The only thing that remains now is to simultaneously stretch the colormap in the image itself to this range, while also rest

[Matplotlib-users] Basemap white space

2010-03-27 Thread Filipe Pires Alvarenga Fernandes
Hello list I've trying for a while a "python only" solution to remove white spaces that Basemap generate to keep the aspect ratio. I found these two threads that explain the issue better: http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg14430.html http://www.mail-archive.com

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Making a data-driven colormap

2010-03-27 Thread Friedrich Romstedt
2010/3/27 Ariel Rokem : > I am trying to make a color-map which will respond to the range of values in > the data itself. That is - I want to take one of the mpl colormaps and use > parts of it, depending on the range of the data. > > In particular, I am interested in using the plt.cm.RdYlBu_r colo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Making a data-driven colormap

2010-03-27 Thread Ariel Rokem
Hi Brian, Thanks for the code - this is definitely in the direction of what I want to make! The RdYlBu_r colormap is one of the built-in colormaps available in matplotlib.pyplot.cm (you can see all of them here: http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Show_colormaps). I think that using the buil

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Strange import error

2010-03-27 Thread Ken Dere
Hi, thanks for the suggestion. They do have multiple versions but I checked that everything is using 2.5 regards, Ken Dere Rune V. Sjøen wrote: > Hi, > > Does the box have multiple python versions installed, and are you sure > that apache is using the > same version and/or site packages as

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Making a data-driven colormap

2010-03-27 Thread Brian Blais
On Mar 27, 2010, at 1:13 , Ariel Rokem wrote: In particular, I am interested in using the plt.cm.RdYlBu_r colormap. If the data has both negative and positive values, I want 0 to map to the central value of this colormap (a pale whitish yellow) and I want negative values to be in blue and p