Re: [Matplotlib-users] colormap question

[Jeff W. <js...@fa...>]

Teng Yang wrote:
> Hello, I have a quick question for you. 
>
> I was trying to make a color and contour plot. But the problem is that
> the matplot defaults the colors from the dark to light for the contour
> values from minimum to maximum, is there any way or commands to reverse
> this order? I mean the dark color for maximum value and light color for
> minimum. 
>
> Thank you so much! 
>
> ///Teng 
>   

Teng:  Simply append '_r' to the colormap name to get the colors 
reversed (e.g. cmap = pylab.cm.hot_r instead of pylab.cm.hot).

-Jeff

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