How about this solution? I'm a complete newbe, but this seems to do the trick. I didn't see a CircleCollection so I used CirclePolygon to generate vertices for a circle; these I grab and toss into a PolyCollection. Enjoy, Dave
import matplotlib from matplotlib.patches import CirclePolygon from matplotlib.collections import PolyCollection import pylab fig=pylab.figure() ax=fig.add_subplot(111) N = 20 x = pylab.rand(N) y = pylab.rand(N) radii = 0.1*pylab.rand(N) colors = 100*pylab.rand(N) verts = [] for x1,y1,r in zip(x, y, radii): circle = CirclePolygon((x1,y1), r) verts.append(circle.get_verts()) p = PolyCollection(verts, cmap=matplotlib.cm.jet) p.set_array(pylab.array(colors)) ax.add_patch(p) pylab.colorbar(p) ax.axis('equal') pylab.show() -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jouni K. Seppänen Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:03 AM To: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing filled circles (discs) sidimok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, let's take the one you've proposed the last time. How than can i > put a colorbar beside the plot? Add in the imports from matplotlib.colorbar import ColorbarBase, make_axes and change the myscatter function to def myscatter(ax, colormap, x, y, radii, colors): for x1,y1,r,c in zip(x, y, radii, colormap(colors)): ax.add_patch(Circle((x1,y1), r, fc=c)) cax, _ = make_axes(ax) ColorbarBase(cax, cmap=colormap) A better solution is probably to implement a CircleCollection similarly to the other collections. -- Jouni K. Seppänen http://www.iki.fi/jks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users