Re: [Matplotlib-users] Labeling/distinguishing lots of curves on a single plot

[John S. <jsalvati@u.washington.edu>]

Thanks!

On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Aman Thakral <ama...@gm...>wrote:

>  Hi John,
>
> Here is a simple way to do it.
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
> fig = plt.figure()
> ax = fig.add_subplot(111)
>
> colors = ('red','green','blue','yellow','orange')
> linestyles = ('-','--',':')
> linewidths = (0.5,2)
>
> y = np.random.randn(100,30)
> x = range(y.shape[0])
> i = 0
>
> for c in colors:
>     for ls in linestyles:
>         for lw in linewidths:
>             ax.plot(x,y[:,i],c=c,ls=ls,lw=lw)
>         i+=1
> plt.show()
>
>
>
> On 10-08-23 03:06 PM, John Salvatier wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a plot with lots of curves on it (say 30), and I would like to have
> some way of distinguishing the curves from each other. Just plotting them
> works well for a few curves because they come out as different colors unless
> you specify otherwise, but if you do too many you start getting repeats is
> there a way to have matplotlib also vary the line style that it
> automatically assigns? Or perhaps someone has another way of distinguishing
> lots of curves?
>
> Best Regards,
> John
>
>
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