I often like to define my own colormaps using hex strings, e.g.
hex_list = [’#FFF295’, ‘#FFD555’, ‘#FF850B’, ‘#D55000’, ‘#D50000’, ‘#550040’, ‘#600080’, ‘#000080’, ‘#0000D5’, ‘#0B85FF’, ‘#55AAFF’, ‘#95CAFF’]
However, when I pass them to contourf and try to extend the colorbar…
plt.contourf(x, y, data, colors=hex_list, extend=‘both’)
…
it always ends up that the color of the final segment on the extended ends of the colorbar is the same color as the extension segment (i.e. the bit in the little arrow). This happens even when hex_list is much longer than the actual number of segments required.
Has anyone else had this problem?
I often like to define my own colormaps using hex strings, e.g.
hex_list = ['#FFF295', '#FFD555', '#FF850B', '#D55000', '#D50000',
'#550040','#600080', '#000080', '#0000D5', '#0B85FF', '#55AAFF', '#95CAFF']
However, when I pass them to contourf and try to extend the colorbar...
plt.contourf(x, y, data, colors=hex_list, extend='both')
... it always ends up that the color of the final segment on the
extended ends of the colorbar is the same color as the extension segment
(i.e. the bit in the little arrow). This happens even when hex_list is
much longer than the actual number of segments required.
You need to use the "levels" kwarg to specify the contour interval boundaries, and then your list of colors needs to have a length equal to len(levels) + 1. In other words, the number of colors listed in the colors kwarg needs to be *exactly* the number needed to fill between the specified levels, plus one for each requested "extend" direction, if any.
plt.contourf(x, y, data, levels=[0, 1, 2],
colors=['red', 'blue, 'brown', 'black'],
extend='both')
That should give you blue and brown for 0-1 and 1-2; with red for data<0, and black for data>2.
Eric
···
On 2014/11/03, 2:19 PM, Damien Irving wrote:
Has anyone else had this problem?
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
Matplotlib-users mailing list
Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
matplotlib-users List Signup and Options