Re: [Matplotlib-users] How adjust colors for color plots to different ranges?

[Steve C. <ste...@ya...>]

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:14 -0800, seb...@sp... wrote:
> The z-axis values that I want to denote with color on this
> plot range from something like 57000 to 66000.
> 
> I think I somehow need to tell Matplotlib what these minimum
> and maximum values are so that my color spectrum can range over
> desired colors for my specific plotting range.
> 
> How do this?  (How make 57000 be one color extreme and make
> 66000 be my other color extreme?)
> 
> Chris
By normalising 57000 to 0 and 66000 to 1 and using a custom colormap
function to generate rgb values to feed into matplotlib.
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52273
I was looking at this cookbook recipe yesterday, it looks like it does
what you require.

Steve