matplotlib-users

[Matplotlib-users] color

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

Two questions and a comment:

Q1. For 'figure' I'm not seeing any effect
of edgecolor (on screen).  Isn't this the
color of the border between the face (or
frame) and the figure (as determined by axes)?

Q2. Can line colors be set to arbitrary rgb colors using
matlab.plot?  If so, what is the syntax?
If not, can this be a feature request?

Minor comment:
is the 'y' yellow needed for a Matlab match?
If not, it needs adjustment IMHO.

fwiw,
Alan Isaac

Re[2]: [Matplotlib-users] color

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Gary apparently wrote:
> import matplotlib.colors
> help(matplotlib.colors)

Yes, I've been using this to set arbitrary
colors everywhere except in the plot command.
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but the
3rd argument to a plot command must be a string,
and despite the apparent suggest in the docs,
hex strings are not supported. 

That is, I cannot find a way to do this.

It would be great to be able to, e.g.,
matlab.plot(d,f(d),'(1,1,0)-')
or
matlab.plot(d,f(d),'#eeefff-')

Am I missing an obvious way to do this?

fwiw,
Alan

Re[2]: [Matplotlib-users] color

[Alan G I. <ai...@am...>]

> Alan G Isaac wrote:
>> It would be great to be able to, e.g.,
>> matlab.plot(d,f(d),'(1,1,0)-')
>> or
>> matlab.plot(d,f(d),'#eeefff-')

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, Gary apparently wrote:
> I second the request.
> But I have an idea.  Try this:
> matlab.plot(d, f(d), color = (1,0,0))


In retrospect it is obvious.
Better yet, you can
matlab.plot(d, f(d), '--', color = (1,0,0))
etc.

Excellent!

Thank you!
Alan Isaac