Re: [Matplotlib-users] histogram colors

[Ryan M. <rm...@gm...>]

2009/5/6 Carlos "Guâno" Grohmann <car...@gm...>

> Dears, I was wondering if I can use a custom colortable in a
> histogram, to get something like this:
>
> http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/htm/r_surf_gauss_hist.png<http://grass.itc.it/grass64/manuals/html64_user/r_surf_gauss_hist.png>


Not directly, but you could do it by hand.  hist returns (among other
things) a list of rectangle patches that represent all the bars.  You could
set the face/edge color of each of the patches based on the value of the
histogram. This example appears to do what you want:

http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/hist_colormapped.html

For the other devs:
This would be easier if hist just returned a collection of rectangles.  Why
again does histogram just use a list of rectangles?

Ryan

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Ryan May
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School of Meteorology
University of Oklahoma