On 3/11/08, Troels Kofoed Jacobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:45:21PM -0700, eliss wrote:
> >
> > Hi, does anyone know of a way to create lines with variable thickness
> > and color when doing a plot?
> > Basically, I'd like to have a third dimension represented using
> > thickness. The API for the plot function states that the line
> thickness
> > can only be a single floating point number.
> > Thanks
>
> I don't know if this is the easiest way, but it can be done with clever
> use of fill:
>
> from pylab import *
>
> x = linspace(0,10,101)
> y = cos(x)
> z = sin(3*x)+2
> zn = 0.05*z
>
> xs, ys = mlab.poly_between(x, y-zn, y+zn)
> fill(xs, ys)
> show()
>
> Best Regards
Thanks for the reply. I couldn't find the "poly_between" function in mlab. I
imported my mlab, and did dir(mlab) but that method doesn't show up in
there. I tried redownloading the latest version of matplotlib as well. Am I
missing a library?
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