Reporting this as a matplotlib bug because that's where I see the error.
I have some code which was running fine, drawing a scatter plot with transparent/alpha for the colour, like this...
ax1.scatter(sanjose_y,sanjose_x,color=(0.9,0.9,0.0,0.1),label='SanJose')
This used to draw a very faint transparent series of points which (where there were a lot of points) built up a fairly solid colour. Now, after an upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 I see only solid colour, no transparency/alpha at all. Also (a different problem), I get an error message (when adding a legend, that no labels were defined). This is also changed behaviour since the upgrade. Seems like scatter has changed... but why?
I tried downloading matplotlib source code and compiling -- and despite a few glitches (like, it was by default Mac compilation) -- I think I got that going OK. Still, I see exactly the same behaviour. Scatter is behaving differently, and I really need that alpha/transparency!!!
Neither of these problems were evident on Ubuntu 9.04, and I was using the inbuilt matplotlib for that.
Please excuse if this report is in the wrong place -- my first attempt to report a bug in this package.
Cheers
A
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Andrew 'Boo' Davie
Have you tried:
ax1.scatter(sanjose_y,sanjose_x,color=(0.9,0.9,0.0),label='SanJose',alpha=0.1)
That's what the scatter_demo2.py example does, and it appears to be working.
In general, alpha support is a bit inconsistent, and is the source of a number of these kinds of bugs -- where RGBA values are supported in some places but not in others. It's on the TODO list to fix, but it's rather pervasive so hasn't been tackled yet.
Mike
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Boo.Davie@...83... wrote:
Reporting this as a matplotlib bug because that's where I see the error.
I have some code which was running fine, drawing a scatter plot with transparent/alpha for the colour, like this...
ax1.scatter(sanjose_y,sanjose_x,color=(0.9,0.9,0.0,0.1),label='SanJose')
This used to draw a very faint transparent series of points which (where there were a lot of points) built up a fairly solid colour. Now, after an upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10 I see only solid colour, no transparency/alpha at all. Also (a different problem), I get an error message (when adding a legend, that no labels were defined). This is also changed behaviour since the upgrade. Seems like scatter has changed... but why?
I tried downloading matplotlib source code and compiling -- and despite a few glitches (like, it was by default Mac compilation) -- I think I got that going OK. Still, I see exactly the same behaviour. Scatter is behaving differently, and I really need that alpha/transparency!!!
Neither of these problems were evident on Ubuntu 9.04, and I was using the inbuilt matplotlib for that.
Please excuse if this report is in the wrong place -- my first attempt to report a bug in this package.
Cheers
A
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This is a known bug.
http://www.nabble.com/No-legend-using-scatter-function-td24816047.html#a24816047
This is fixed in the svn, and I guess 0.99.1.1 shipped with this fixed.
If you don't want to upgrade, use the workaround in the above post.
Regards,
-JJ
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On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 2:35 AM, <Boo.Davie@...83...> wrote:
Also (a different problem), I get an error message (when adding a legend, that no labels were defined). This is also changed behaviour since the upgrade. Seems like scatter has changed... but why?
Have you tried:
ax1.scatter(sanjose_y,sanjose_x,color=(0.9,0.9,0.0),label='SanJose',alpha=0.1)
Yes, the above worked, thank you
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