color xy plot

Hi all,
I'm trying to plot in 2D, 3 variables from time series, instead of volume I
want color for the third variable.
I have partial success with a scatter plot, but I'm unable to manage the
colorbar so it represents z values,
I needed to sort the variables and it's getting a bit ugly, so I though I
might be missing some other function ?
this is what I used:
            pylab.figure()
            x=self.stData.[items[0]]
            y=self.stData.[items[1]]
            z=self.stData.[items[2]]
            points=zip(x,y)
            points3=sorted(zip(z,points))
            for i,p in enumerate(points3):
                z[i]=p[0]
                x[i]=p[1][0]
                y[i]=p[1][1]
            #colors=pylab.linspace(z.min(),z.max(),len(z)) did not work
            colors=pylab.linspace(0,1,len(z))
            pylab.scatter(x,y,c=colors,faceted=False)
            pylab.colorbar()
            pylab.show()
but even if I could get the colorbar ticks to represent z values, in fact
this is not correct as this gives every point "one" color, and this is not
correct...

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Just pass c=z to scatter if z are the values you want to colormap.

JDH

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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM, sordnay <sordnay@...287...> wrote:

Hi all,
I'm trying to plot in 2D, 3 variables from time series, instead of volume I
want color for the third variable.
I have partial success with a scatter plot, but I'm unable to manage the
colorbar so it represents z values,
I needed to sort the variables and it's getting a bit ugly, so I though I
might be missing some other function ?
this is what I used:
           pylab.figure()
           x=self.stData.[items[0]]
           y=self.stData.[items[1]]
           z=self.stData.[items[2]]
           points=zip(x,y)
           points3=sorted(zip(z,points))
           for i,p in enumerate(points3):
               z[i]=p[0]
               x[i]=p[1][0]
               y[i]=p[1][1]
           #colors=pylab.linspace(z.min(),z.max(),len(z)) did not work
           colors=pylab.linspace(0,1,len(z))
           pylab.scatter(x,y,c=colors,faceted=False)

John Hunter-4 wrote:

Hi all,
I'm trying to plot in 2D, 3 variables from time series, instead of volume
I
want color for the third variable.
I have partial success with a scatter plot, but I'm unable to manage the
colorbar so it represents z values,
I needed to sort the variables and it's getting a bit ugly, so I though I
might be missing some other function ?
this is what I used:
           pylab.figure()
           x=self.stData.[items[0]]
           y=self.stData.[items[1]]
           z=self.stData.[items[2]]
           points=zip(x,y)
           points3=sorted(zip(z,points))
           for i,p in enumerate(points3):
               z[i]=p[0]
               x[i]=p[1][0]
               y[i]=p[1][1]
           #colors=pylab.linspace(z.min(),z.max(),len(z)) did not work
           colors=pylab.linspace(0,1,len(z))
           pylab.scatter(x,y,c=colors,faceted=False)

Just pass c=z to scatter if z are the values you want to colormap.

JDH

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yes it was lot easier, but i had to set the vmin and vmax kwargs or it
wouldn't work:
            sigbrowse=figure()
            x=self.stData.Data[items[0]]
            y=self.stData.Data[items[1]]
            z=self.stData.Data[items[2]]
            scatter(x,y,c=z,faceted=False,vmin=z.min(),vmax=z.max())
            colorbar()
            show()

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Bringing up an old thread, but just curious if this can be done with the plot
command as well, as in:
plt.plot(X,Y[1:3,:].T,c=['blue','red'])

Thanks,
john

sordnay wrote:

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John Hunter-4 wrote:

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 6:14 PM, sordnay <sordnay@...287...> wrote:

Hi all,
I'm trying to plot in 2D, 3 variables from time series, instead of
volume I
want color for the third variable.
I have partial success with a scatter plot, but I'm unable to manage the
colorbar so it represents z values,
I needed to sort the variables and it's getting a bit ugly, so I though
I
might be missing some other function ?
this is what I used:
           pylab.figure()
           x=self.stData.[items[0]]
           y=self.stData.[items[1]]
           z=self.stData.[items[2]]
           points=zip(x,y)
           points3=sorted(zip(z,points))
           for i,p in enumerate(points3):
               z[i]=p[0]
               x[i]=p[1][0]
               y[i]=p[1][1]
           #colors=pylab.linspace(z.min(),z.max(),len(z)) did not work
           colors=pylab.linspace(0,1,len(z))
           pylab.scatter(x,y,c=colors,faceted=False)

Just pass c=z to scatter if z are the values you want to colormap.

JDH

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yes it was lot easier, but i had to set the vmin and vmax kwargs or it
wouldn't work:
            sigbrowse=figure()
            x=self.stData.Data[items[0]]
            y=self.stData.Data[items[1]]
            z=self.stData.Data[items[2]]
            scatter(x,y,c=z,faceted=False,vmin=z.min(),vmax=z.max())
            colorbar()
            show()

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