Re: [Matplotlib-users] using color as z-axis for plots

[John H. <jd...@gm...>]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Chad Kidder <cck...@gm...> wrote:
> I've got many series of data that I want to plot, and each has an
> additional scalar that is valid for the whole series.  What I want to
> do is plot all these series on top of each other (plot can do this
> just fine), but with the additional scalar changing the color,
> efectively using color as the z-axis.  I'm not seeing how to do that.
> If there was a function where I could give a color map a value and it
> would spit out the color, that would work, but I haven't seen it.
> Thanks for your help.


Check out the scatter_demo -- scatter takes an optional argument 'c'
for the color and an optional colormap

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/screenshots.html#scatter-demo




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