Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter and translucency

[John H. <jdh...@ac...>]

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Peery <jef...@se...> writes:

    Jeff> Hello, I'm using scatter to plot markers that I would like
    Jeff> to be transparent, so I use the keyword alpha = 0.2 to set
    Jeff> transparency at 20%. But the markers are not transparent. I
    Jeff> was informed by this list prior that there is a bug with
    Jeff> using plot() and the transparency does not work. Is this the
    Jeff> same bug for scatter as well?

alpha on scatter works for me, eg examples/scatter_demo2.py.  Not all
backends support transparency (PS, GTK, WX) but for those that do
(GTKAgg, TkAgg, WXAgg, etc, SVG) it should work fine.

  http://matplotlib.sf.net/examples/scatter_demo2.py

JDH