Yes, colormaps are callable so you can call the colormap with either a
scalar value or an
array of values and what will be returned is a tuple of rgba values or
an array (shape
= 4, nelements). See the docstring on __call__ for
LinearSegmentedColormap in colors.py
Perry
On Jan 6, 2005, at 3:18 PM, Carol Leger wrote:
> I am using fill to make filled polygons. I want to fill the polygons
> with colors that reflect data values, similar to what imshow does.
>
> Is there a way to extract the rgb tuples from a Colormap? This could
> be an array of N tuples, each tuple containing 3 0-1 floats that
> describe the color or three separate arrays, one each for red, green
> and blue.
>
> I made the mistake of using some non-public attributes of the class
> colorMap to accomplish this in a previous version of matplotlib. That
> was a mistake since Colormap._red_lut, Colormap._green_lut and
> Colormap._blue_lut no longer exist.
>
> Once I have the array of tuples, I can determine which one I want and
> create a hex string using rgb2hex to get a color suitable for use with
> fill.
>
> I need the flexability to make the same plot using several different
> color maps.
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