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

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

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Chad Kidder <cck...@gm...> wrote:
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> Instead of getting a grayscale plot out, I'd like to use a colormap
> like jet() or winter().  Any ideas there?

How about?

  import matplotlib.cm as cm

  for ii in range(nlines):
      color = cm.jet(z[ii])
      p.plot(x,y[ii,:],color=color)

All of the mpl colormaps are callable, so if you pass in a [0..1]
normalized value they will return an RGB tuple

JDH