Two circles with “exponential decay” coloring, and alpha < 1, having trouble with color mixing?

Hi all,

In order to get circles such that their coloring is radially symmetric, with center being the darkest, and exponential decay in color as one moves farther away from the center along the radius, I used imshow with clip_path using Circle patches.

Here’s a toy script that overlaps two such circles: https://gist.github.com/bmer/7063cc2dd09f1b80a252

As you can see if you run the script (or, if you follow this link: http://i.imgur.com/H9jEAZ3.png), even though the alpha is set at 0.5, there doesn’t seem to be proper “color mixing” occurring (we should see a result that is symmetric along the x-axis).

Why is that, and what could I do to fix this issue?

Kind regards,
Brian

Maybe the issue is with the colormap not having an alpha? Does this

help?

Otherwise, you might file a bug at

-Sterling

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On Nov 20, 2015, at 4:46PM, Brian Merchant <bhmerchant@...287...> wrote:

Hi all,

In order to get circles such that their coloring is radially symmetric, with center being the darkest, and exponential decay in color as one moves farther away from the center along the radius, I used imshow with clip_path using Circle patches.

Here's a toy script that overlaps two such circles: https://gist.github.com/bmer/7063cc2dd09f1b80a252

As you can see if you run the script (or, if you follow this link: http://i.imgur.com/H9jEAZ3.png), even though the alpha is set at 0.5, there doesn't seem to be proper "color mixing" occurring (we should see a result that is symmetric along the x-axis).

Why is that, and what could I do to fix this issue?

Kind regards,
Brian
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The way we do the alpha blending, the output value is (alpha * v1) + ((alpha-1) * v2). All of the artists are compsited down on top of a white background so the compositing is not commutative.

(a * .5) + (.5 * (b * .5 + .5)) =/= (b * .5) + (.5 * (a * .5 + .5))

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On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 1:55 PM Sterling Smith <smithsp@…3304…> wrote:

Maybe the issue is with the colormap not having an alpha? Does this

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10127284/overlay-imshow-plots-in-matplotlib

help?

Otherwise, you might file a bug at

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/new

-Sterling

On Nov 20, 2015, at 4:46PM, Brian Merchant <bhmerchant@…287…> wrote:

Hi all,

In order to get circles such that their coloring is radially symmetric, with center being the darkest, and exponential decay in color as one moves farther away from the center along the radius, I used imshow with clip_path using Circle patches.

Here’s a toy script that overlaps two such circles: https://gist.github.com/bmer/7063cc2dd09f1b80a252

As you can see if you run the script (or, if you follow this link: http://i.imgur.com/H9jEAZ3.png), even though the alpha is set at 0.5, there doesn’t seem to be proper “color mixing” occurring (we should see a result that is symmetric along the x-axis).

Why is that, and what could I do to fix this issue?

Kind regards,

Brian



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