Re: [Matplotlib-users] setting scientific number notation on colorbar

[Andre Walker-L. <wal...@gm...>]

> Hi Thanks for the answer,
>
> actually, I always use
> show and plot, I have no clue how to use the functions you  
> suggested ...
>
> I'll look into it.
>
> Do you have an idea where I can find a description of the keyword  
> "format"
>
> '%.3f' is nice, but still not scientific format...

you can use

'%.3e'

for scientific format.


Cheers,

Andre



>
> is this like Fortran?
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Benjamin Root <ben...@ou...>  
> wrote:
> Oz,
>
> Some plotting functions like pcolor and imshow have keyword args for  
> vmin/vmax where you can explicitly set the min and maximum values  
> for the colorscale.  There are some more complicated things you can  
> do with the colormap that are more generic to all plotting functions  
> as well, but I would see if using vmin and vmax does the trick for  
> you.
>
> Ben Root
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 7:25 PM, Oz Nahum <na...@gm...> wrote:
> found a solution after 2 hours ...
>
> colorbar(ax=ax1,  orientation='horizontal',format='%.3f')
>
> now, I need to know how to set up limits for all the images which are
> exactly the same limits.
> So far I'm failing with the use of "boundaries"
>
> ....
>
> Would be happy to know
>
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