On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, per freem <perfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi all,
>
> i have a set of about 100-500 points that i'd like to color in different
> colors. i tried the following, using the c= argument to the scatter command:
>
> x = rand(200)
> scatter(x, x, c=xrange(1,201))
>
> however, only a handful of colors seem to be used and the points look very
> similar. what i am looking for is a different color for every point -- it
> can even be different shades, as in this example:
>
>
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/ellipse_collection.html
>
> does anyone know how to create this?
>
The following works for me
In [13]: x, y = np.random.rand(2, 100)
In [14]: c = np.random.rand(100)
In [15]: scatter(x, y, c=c)
Out[15]: <matplotlib.collections.RegularPolyCollection object at
0x905e3ec>
> also, more complex, is there a way to do this where every point gets not
> only a different color but a different symbol? e.g. '^', 's', 'x', etc. ? i
> know there aren't 200 different symbols but it'd be nice if it cycled
> through the different symbols as much as possible (e.g. one point might be
> blue '^' and another might be red '^') to distinguish the points
This isn't supported with scatter -- you could make multiple calls to
scatter or plot if you want different symbols, but if you need *every*
symbol to be different this would be slow. In that case, you might want to
write your own matplotlib.collections.PolygonCollection.
JDH
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