[Matplotlib-users] creating colors for many plots

2014-05-08 Thread MaxMax
i have found a solution for creating colors for many plots at this page: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7513262/matplotlib-large-set-of-colors-for-plots what does this the following line do? colors = plt.get_cmap('jet')(np.linspace(0, 1.0, len(kinds))) plt.get_cmap('jet') gets a LinearSegment

Re: [Matplotlib-users] creating colors for many plots

2014-05-08 Thread MaxMax
thanks I found the spectral colormap is best suited to distinguish between many equal spaced colors. I am find it sad, that matplotlib has so many features, but is so unintuitive to use. -- View this message in context: http://matplotlib.1069221.n5.nabble.com/creating-colors-for-many-plots-