Hi,
I am trying to plot a set of simulation results of FEM simulations.
With a lot of help from Ben I can plot the deformed shape quite nicely
but I have trouble in applying a colorbar to the plot.
In the attached file there are three results with different results.
How can I apply a "global" colorbar so that all collections are nicely
represented?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Daniel
3D_colorbar.py (2 KB)
Hi,
I am trying to plot a set of simulation results of FEM simulations.
With a lot of help from Ben I can plot the deformed shape quite nicely
but I have trouble in applying a colorbar to the plot.In the attached file there are three results with different results.
How can I apply a "global" colorbar so that all collections are nicely
represented?
Quick thoughts with no testing or concrete examples:
1) Don't set the cmap or norm for the colorbar; let it inherit those properties from the mappable to which it is connected.
2) Ensure that the cmap and norm are the same for all collections. You are already taking care of the cmap, so the problem is that you are autoscaling the collections separately, which is setting vmin and vmax to different values for the different collections. Use the data to figure out the range (vmin, vmax) that you want the colors to span, and then for each collection, instead of col.autoscale(), use
col.norm.vmin = vmin
col.norm.vmax = vmax
(You could also make a single norm instance for all the collections to use, just as with the cmap, so that you only have to set vmin and vmax once.)
Eric
On 01/13/2011 01:40 PM, Daniel Mader wrote:
Thanks a lot in advance,
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Hi Eric,
thanks for your feedback, it helped a lot! I have some questions left,
see below.
2011/1/14 Eric Firing <efiring@...202...>:
Quick thoughts with no testing or concrete examples:
1) Don't set the cmap or norm for the colorbar; let it inherit those
properties from the mappable to which it is connected.
Am I doing this correctly in the attached code? It seems there are
several ways of doing this... Which is the suggested one? How can I
label the colorbar?
2) Ensure that the cmap and norm are the same for all collections. You
are already taking care of the cmap, so the problem is that you are
autoscaling the collections separately, which is setting vmin and vmax
to different values for the different collections. Use the data to
figure out the range (vmin, vmax) that you want the colors to span, and
then for each collection, instead of col.autoscale(), usecol\.norm\.vmin = vmin col\.norm\.vmax = vmax
That was what I needed, see code 
(You could also make a single norm instance for all the collections to
use, just as with the cmap, so that you only have to set vmin and vmax
once.)
And this I don't understandm could you please elaborate?
Thanks a very lot in advance
best regards from Austria,
Daniel
3D_colorbar.py (2.24 KB)
Hi Eric,
thanks for your feedback, it helped a lot! I have some questions left,
see below.2011/1/14 Eric Firing<efiring@...202...>:
Quick thoughts with no testing or concrete examples:
1) Don't set the cmap or norm for the colorbar; let it inherit those
properties from the mappable to which it is connected.Am I doing this correctly in the attached code? It seems there are
several ways of doing this... Which is the suggested one? How can I
label the colorbar?
The way you did it is fine. For the label, modify by keeping a reference to the colorbar and then calling set_label:
cb = fig.colorbar(collist[-1], shrink=0.85,)#, aspect=5)
cb.set_label('whatever this is')
2) Ensure that the cmap and norm are the same for all collections. You
are already taking care of the cmap, so the problem is that you are
autoscaling the collections separately, which is setting vmin and vmax
to different values for the different collections. Use the data to
figure out the range (vmin, vmax) that you want the colors to span, and
then for each collection, instead of col.autoscale(), usecol.norm.vmin = vmin
col.norm.vmax = vmaxThat was what I needed, see code
(You could also make a single norm instance for all the collections to
use, just as with the cmap, so that you only have to set vmin and vmax
once.)And this I don't understandm could you please elaborate?
See attached modification.
Eric
3D_colorbar.py (1.98 KB)
On 01/14/2011 02:02 AM, Daniel Mader wrote:
Thanks a very lot in advance
best regards from Austria,Daniel
Thank you very much for your patience, your explanations helped me a
very lot in getting beautiful plots for my thesis!
Best regards,
Daniel