Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Monday, November 26, 2012 14:10:31 Eric Firing wrote: > But how many colors can you actually distinguish on the screen, or in a > plot? My impression is that the problem is not lack of colors, but > rather mapping to the color you want. There is no reason that having a > value in your *data* of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/11/26 12:18 PM, TP wrote: > On Monday, November 26, 2012 12:06:40 Eric Firing wrote: >> I'm glad you found a solution, but my sense is that the problem is that >> you are trying to make the colormap do the work of the norm. The >> colormap is just a set of discrete colors, with a linear ma

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Monday, November 26, 2012 12:06:40 Eric Firing wrote: > I'm glad you found a solution, but my sense is that the problem is that > you are trying to make the colormap do the work of the norm. The > colormap is just a set of discrete colors, with a linear mapping to the > 0-1 scale (apart from th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/11/26 11:37 AM, TP wrote: > On Thursday, November 22, 2012 23:51:08 TP wrote: >> Thus it seems to me that my dummy example given in the previous post covers >> exactly the problem encountered in my real-world imshow function. >> >> Is there a memory-efficient workaround in my dummy example

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Thursday, November 22, 2012 23:51:08 TP wrote: > Thus it seems to me that my dummy example given in the previous post covers > exactly the problem encountered in my real-world imshow function. > > Is there a memory-efficient workaround in my dummy example (instead of > increasing N)? I have mo

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-22 Thread TP
On Monday, November 19, 2012 13:53:21 Eric Firing wrote: > It is not entirely clear to me what you are trying to do, but it sounds > like increasing N is not the right way to do it. Three things might help > you find a better way: > > 1) The colormap is intended to work with a norm that handles t

Re: [Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-19 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/11/19 11:42 AM, TP wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a problem with LinearSegmentedColormap. > In the example below (see PS), I make a colormap, and use it to plot an > EllipseCollection. My plot is parameterized by a quantity that I have named > "large_value". For large_value equal to 257,

[Matplotlib-users] "N" parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-19 Thread TP
Hi everybody, I have a problem with LinearSegmentedColormap. In the example below (see PS), I make a colormap, and use it to plot an EllipseCollection. My plot is parameterized by a quantity that I have named "large_value". For large_value equal to 257, a blue point is obtained at (x=0.3, y=0.4