textured bar-chart

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Hello,
I need to prepare a black&white bar chart with several sets of bars.
Now, I have white bars and black bars but I need more colorings that are distinguishable in black&white.
Is it possible to make bars filled with some texture or tiling or a grid?

Excel has this function but I could not find a way to do it in python/matplotlib.

Thanks,
Eli

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It's not what one would call a turn-key solution, but it is possible:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/demo_ribbon_box.html

Ryan

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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Eli Brosh <ebrosh1@...287...> wrote:

Hello,
I need to prepare a black&white bar chart with several sets of bars.
Now, I have white bars and black bars but I need more colorings that are
distinguishable in black&white.
Is it possible to make bars filled with some texture or tiling or a grid?
Excel has this function but I could not find a way to do it in
python/matplotlib.

--
Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma

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There is also hatching

  http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/hatch_demo.html

JDH

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Ryan May <rmay31@...287...> wrote:

It's not what one would call a turn-key solution, but it is possible:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/demo_ribbon_box.html

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Thank you John and Ryan,
I like the hatching solution very much.

Eli

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:48 PM, John Hunter <jdh2358@…287…> wrote:

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Ryan May <rmay31@…287…> wrote:

It’s not what one would call a turn-key solution, but it is possible:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/demo_ribbon_box.html

There is also hatching

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/hatch_demo.html

JDH