Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Scott & Jeff, Sorry for the delay in replying, I was off office for a while. 2008/12/9 Scott Sinclair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > As Jeff noted earlier, the number of elements in an array can't be > increased simply by reshaping it, so the error message isn't too > mysterious, if carefully consi

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Scott Sinclair
> Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > I tried to do: > > coords = numpy.loadtxt('grid.dat') > lon = coords[:,0] > lat = coords[:,1] > dat = coords[:,2] > X, Y = numpy.meshgrid(lon, lat) > nlons = X.shape[1] > nlats = X.shape[0] > Z = dat.reshape(nlats,nlons) > > (so that I could proceed to plotting with the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear Jeff, > > 2008/12/9 Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Mauro: The shape of x, y, and dat must all be (nlats, nlons). >> > > I tried to do: > > coords = numpy.loadtxt('grid.dat') > lon = coords[:,0] > lat = coords[:,1] > dat = coords[:,2] > X, Y = numpy.m

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear Jeff, > > 2008/12/9 Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Assuming that this is a regular grid (so that using meshgrid makes sense) >> you can >> > > >> using pcolor: >> m.pcolormesh(x,y,dat) >> > > Unfortunately, this didn't work. I got the error me

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear Jeff, 2008/12/9 Jeff Whitaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Assuming that this is a regular grid (so that using meshgrid makes sense) > you can > using pcolor: > m.pcolormesh(x,y,dat) Unfortunately, this didn't work. I got the error message (using the example data from my previous post): "File "/

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Mauro Cavalcanti wrote: > Dear ALL, > > Good morning! Here am I again with the first (and perhaps simpler) > part of a potentially long question on plotting gridded data using MPL > (*and* Basemap). > > Most examples I have found of plotting gridded data (using either > MATLAB or MPL) depict highly

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting grid data

2008-12-09 Thread Mauro Cavalcanti
Dear ALL, Good morning! Here am I again with the first (and perhaps simpler) part of a potentially long question on plotting gridded data using MPL (*and* Basemap). Most examples I have found of plotting gridded data (using either MATLAB or MPL) depict highly sophisticated 3D plots that are much