Re: [Matplotlib-users] incremental colors for lines

2011-05-10 Thread Daniel Mader
Hi, I like this, too. However, I don't understand why it works at all. Usually, when I apply a colormap, I need to take care about the scaling myself, i.e. divide the range up into the number of elements to plot: import pylab as pl import matplotlib.cm as cm xval = pl.arange(0, 20, 0.2) n = 256

[Matplotlib-users] imshow in Axes3D?

2011-05-10 Thread Jonathan Slavin
Hi, I would like to create a plot with a series of parallel 2-D slices in order to illustrate 3-D data. I got excited when I saw the example of translucent bar plots, which is similiar in some ways to what I had in mind. But it seems that there is no imshow method in Axes3D. How hard would

Re: [Matplotlib-users] imshow in Axes3D?

2011-05-10 Thread Benjamin Root
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Jonathan Slavin jsla...@cfa.harvard.eduwrote: Hi, I would like to create a plot with a series of parallel 2-D slices in order to illustrate 3-D data. I got excited when I saw the example of translucent bar plots, which is similiar in some ways to what I had

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Feature request: automatic scaling of subplots, margins, etc

2011-05-10 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Daniel Mader danielstefanma...@googlemail.com wrote: From many postings here I have learned that this is the absolute intention, i.e. it is broken by design unless the programmer takes care about this. I think there are pros and cons, and I don't think the