defining a color for a value

Friends,
I have a data like the following. I dnt want to plot the data literally as shown below. I want to define a color red for 0, blue for 1 and yellow for 2. Each color represents the properly of the y-values. I want to define colors for values and monitor the color changes with time. I checked for color definition in the documentation but i cudnt make out anything. Is it possible. I would greatly appreciate any examples for the same.

time y1 y2 y3 y4 y5 y6 y7
0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
3 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
4 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
5 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
7 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
8 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
9 0 0 2 2 0 0 1
10 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
11 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
12 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
13 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
14 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
15 1 1 2 2 0 0 1

Thanks,
Bala

The example belows shows the guts of what needs to be done. It
creates a dictionary mapping value to color, and uses a
BrokenBarCollection to plot the regions updating them with a list of
new facecolors on every step. Note that the "pylab animation" I use
below is for illustrative purposes only and is not supported -- rather
you need to embed the update calls in a GUI idle, timer or other
handler, as in the examples at

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/animation/index.html

But since I don't know what GUI you are using, I'll leave this part as
an exercise :slight_smile:

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.colors import colorConverter
import matplotlib.collections as collections
import numpy as np

Ncol = 7
x = np.array("""\
  0 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  1 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  2 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  3 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  4 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  5 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  6 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  7 0 0 1 1 1 1 1
  8 0 0 1 1 0 0 1
  9 0 0 2 2 0 0 1
  10 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
  11 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
  12 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
  13 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
  14 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
  15 1 1 2 2 0 0 1
""".split(), int)

x = x.reshape(len(x)/(Ncol+1), Ncol+1)

# map value to color -- the color converter returns rgba which is what
# the collection wants
colors = (0,'red'), (1,'blue'), (2,'yellow')
colord = dict([(code, colorConverter.to_rgba(color)) for code, color in colors])

Ncol = 7

# this is for "pylab animation"
plt.ion()

xranges = [(xmin, xmin+1) for xmin in range(Ncol)]

collection = collections.BrokenBarHCollection(xranges, [0, 1])

fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
ax.add_collection(collection)
ax.set_xlim(0, Ncol+1)
ax.set_ylim(-0.1, 1.1)

for row in x:
    t = row[0]
    vals = row[1:]
    colors = [colord[val] for val in vals]
    collection.set_facecolors(colors)
    fig.canvas.draw()

plt.show()

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On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:41 AM, Bala subramanian <bala.biophysics@...287...> wrote:

Friends,
I have a data like the following. I dnt want to plot the data literally as
shown below. I want to define a color red for 0, blue for 1 and yellow for
2. Each color represents the properly of the y-values. I want to define
colors for values and monitor the color changes with time. I checked for
color definition in the documentation but i cudnt make out anything. Is it
possible. I would greatly appreciate any examples for the same.