Hello
I am trying to calculate the facecolors for the Axes3D.plot_surface function, to have something similar to matlab surf 4th argument!!
Something like plot_surface(x,y,z,facecolors=calc_colors(v))
So, I need to obtain the colors corresponding to the values of v! I created the function calc_colors:
import pylab
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.colors import rgb2hex
def calc_colors(var):
colors = np.empty(var.shape, dtype='S7')
mm=pylab.cm.ScalarMappable()
mm.set_clim((var.min(),var.max()))
mm.set_cmap(pylab.cm.jet)
colors.flat= [rgb2hex(mm.to_rgba(k)[:-1]) for k in var.flat]
return colors
Well I believe this is not the smartest way to calculate the colors !! At least it is quite slow !
Can someone give me a better solution for this problem?
than you
mma
I might be wrong, but can’t mm.to_rgba() take var.flat as an input, thereby giving you an array of colors as output? Also, I don’t think it is necessary to call rgb2hex() because matplotlib will just convert that hex back into rgba. I believe you should be able to just return the result of mm.to_rgba(var.flat).
I hope that helps,
Ben Root
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Martinho MA <mma@…1770…> wrote:
Hello
I am trying to calculate the facecolors for the Axes3D.plot_surface
function, to have something similar to matlab surf 4th argument!!
Something like plot_surface(x,y,z,facecolors=calc_colors(v))
So, I need to obtain the colors corresponding to the values of v! I
created the function calc_colors:
import pylab
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.colors import rgb2hex
def calc_colors(var):
colors = np.empty(var.shape, dtype=‘S7’)
mm=pylab.cm.ScalarMappable()
mm.set_clim((var.min(),var.max()))
mm.set_cmap(pylab.cm.jet)
colors.flat= [rgb2hex(mm.to_rgba(k)[:-1]) for k in var.flat]
return colors
Well I believe this is not the smartest way to calculate the colors !!
At least it is quite slow !
Can someone give me a better solution for this problem?
than you
mma
mm.to_rgba(var.flat) doesn't work as plot_surface facecolors, but mm.to_rgba(var) does!
Thanks for the hint
mma
Benjamin Root wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Martinho MA <mma@...1770... > <mailto:mma@…1770…>> wrote:
Hello
I am trying to calculate the facecolors for the Axes3D.plot_surface
function, to have something similar to matlab surf 4th argument!!
Something like plot_surface(x,y,z,facecolors=calc_colors(v))
So, I need to obtain the colors corresponding to the values of v! I
created the function calc_colors:
import pylab
import numpy as np
from matplotlib.colors import rgb2hex
def calc_colors(var):
colors = np.empty(var.shape, dtype='S7')
mm=pylab.cm.ScalarMappable()
mm.set_clim((var.min(),var.max()))
mm.set_cmap(pylab.cm.jet)
colors.flat= [rgb2hex(mm.to_rgba(k)[:-1]) for k in var.flat]
return colors
Well I believe this is not the smartest way to calculate the colors !!
At least it is quite slow !
Can someone give me a better solution for this problem?
than you
mma
I might be wrong, but can't mm.to_rgba() take var.flat as an input, thereby giving you an array of colors as output? Also, I don't think it is necessary to call rgb2hex() because matplotlib will just convert that hex back into rgba. I believe you should be able to just return the result of mm.to_rgba(var.flat).
I hope that helps,
Ben Root