I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
--Chad Kidder
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an
additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to
do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this
just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color,
efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that.
If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it
would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it.
Thanks for your help.
Check out the scatter_demo -- scatter takes an optional argument 'c'
for the color and an optional colormap
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/screenshots.html#scatter-demo
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Chad Kidder wrote:
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
Try using scatter instead of plot. Specifically, the 'c' keyword argument:
*c*:
a color. *c* can be a single color format string, or a
sequence of color specifications of length *N*, or a
sequence of *N* numbers to be mapped to colors using the
*cmap* and *norm* specified via kwargs (see below). Note
that *c* should not be a single numeric RGB or RGBA
sequence because that is indistinguishable from an array
of values to be colormapped. *c* can be a 2-D array in
which the rows are RGB or RGBA, however.
For example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = np.random.randn(100)
y = np.random.randn(100)
data = x**2 + y**2
plt.scatter(x, y, c=data)
plt.show()
Ryan
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Close, but not quite what I want. Maybe this will tell what I want to do better:
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On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Ryan May wrote:
Chad Kidder wrote:
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
Try using scatter instead of plot. Specifically, the 'c' keyword argument:
*c*:
a color. *c* can be a single color format string, or a
sequence of color specifications of length *N*, or a
sequence of *N* numbers to be mapped to colors using the
*cmap* and *norm* specified via kwargs (see below). Note
that *c* should not be a single numeric RGB or RGBA
sequence because that is indistinguishable from an array
of values to be colormapped. *c* can be a 2-D array in
which the rows are RGB or RGBA, however.
For example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = np.random.randn(100)
y = np.random.randn(100)
data = x**2 + y**2
plt.scatter(x, y, c=data)
plt.show()
Ryan
----------------------
import numpy as n
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
nlines = 100
z = n.random.rand(nlines)
x = n.array(range(nlines))
t1, t2 = n.meshgrid(x,z)
y = t1+t2-0.5
for ii in range(nlines):
p.plot(x,y[ii,:],color = str(z[ii]))
p.show()
-------------------
Instead of getting a grayscale plot out, I'd like to use a colormap like jet() or winter(). Any ideas there?
--Chad Kidder
Chad Kidder wrote:
Chad Kidder wrote:
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
Try using scatter instead of plot. Specifically, the 'c' keyword argument:
*c*:
a color. *c* can be a single color format string, or a
sequence of color specifications of length *N*, or a
sequence of *N* numbers to be mapped to colors using the
*cmap* and *norm* specified via kwargs (see below). Note
that *c* should not be a single numeric RGB or RGBA
sequence because that is indistinguishable from an array
of values to be colormapped. *c* can be a 2-D array in
which the rows are RGB or RGBA, however.
For example:
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
x = np.random.randn(100)
y = np.random.randn(100)
data = x**2 + y**2
plt.scatter(x, y, c=data)
plt.show()
Ryan
Close, but not quite what I want. Maybe this will tell what I want to do better:
----------------------
import numpy as n
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
nlines = 100
z = n.random.rand(nlines)
x = n.array(range(nlines))
t1, t2 = n.meshgrid(x,z)
y = t1+t2-0.5
for ii in range(nlines):
p.plot(x,y[ii,:],color = str(z[ii]))
p.show()
-------------------
Instead of getting a grayscale plot out, I'd like to use a colormap like jet() or winter(). Any ideas there?
In [6]:cmap = get_cmap('jet')
In [7]:cmap(0.2)
Out[7]:(0.0, 0.29999999999999999, 1.0, 1.0)
In [8]:cmap(0.8)
Out[8]:(1.0, 0.40740740740740755, 0.0, 1.0)
The pyplot.get_cmap() function gets a colormap by name. Calling that colormap with a floating-point argument in the 0-1 range returns the mapped color as an rgba tuple, which will be accepted by the color kwarg of plot. You can use pyplot.normalize to map your z range to the 0-1 range:
In [2]:norm = normalize(vmin=2, vmax=4)
In [3]:norm(3)
Out[3]:0.5
Alternatively, you can use a LineCollection. See the examples/pylab_examples/line_collection2.py script.
Eric
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Chad Kidder wrote:
Chad Kidder wrote:
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
Try using scatter instead of plot. Specifically, the 'c' keyword argument:
*c*:
a color. *c* can be a single color format string, or a
sequence of color specifications of length *N*, or a
sequence of *N* numbers to be mapped to colors using the
*cmap* and *norm* specified via kwargs (see below). Note
that *c* should not be a single numeric RGB or RGBA
sequence because that is indistinguishable from an array
of values to be colormapped. *c* can be a 2-D array in
which the rows are RGB or RGBA, however.
Here's what you're looking for:
import numpy as n
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
import matplotlib.colors as mcolors
import matplotlib.cm as cm
cmap = cm.get_cmap('winter')
norm = mcolors.Normalize(0, 1) #Range of z
nlines = 100
z = n.random.rand(nlines)
x = n.arange(nlines)
t1, t2 = n.meshgrid(x,z)
y = t1+t2-0.5
#Uses normalize to map z values to range of 0 to 1.
#Cmap maps these normalized values to colors
colors = cmap(norm(z))
for ii in range(nlines):
p.plot(x, y[ii], color=colors[ii])
p.show()
Ryan
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On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Ryan May wrote:
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Ryan May
Graduate Research Assistant
School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma
Thanks all. I had tried something close, but it didn't work. This works great.
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On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:00 PM, Ryan May wrote:
Chad Kidder wrote:
On Dec 8, 2008, at 12:55 PM, Ryan May wrote:
Chad Kidder wrote:
I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an additional scalar that is valid for the whole series. What I want to do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color, efectively using color as the z-axis. I'm not seeing how to do that. If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it. Thanks for your help.
Try using scatter instead of plot. Specifically, the 'c' keyword argument:
*c*:
a color. *c* can be a single color format string, or a
sequence of color specifications of length *N*, or a
sequence of *N* numbers to be mapped to colors using the
*cmap* and *norm* specified via kwargs (see below). Note
that *c* should not be a single numeric RGB or RGBA
sequence because that is indistinguishable from an array
of values to be colormapped. *c* can be a 2-D array in
which the rows are RGB or RGBA, however.
Here's what you're looking for:
import numpy as n
import matplotlib.pyplot as p
import matplotlib.colors as mcolors
import matplotlib.cm as cm
cmap = cm.get_cmap('winter')
norm = mcolors.Normalize(0, 1) #Range of z
nlines = 100
z = n.random.rand(nlines)
x = n.arange(nlines)
t1, t2 = n.meshgrid(x,z)
y = t1+t2-0.5
#Uses normalize to map z values to range of 0 to 1.
#Cmap maps these normalized values to colors
colors = cmap(norm(z))
for ii in range(nlines):
p.plot(x, y[ii], color=colors[ii])
p.show()
Ryan