bar does what you need. import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
freq = np.array( [127516, 8548, 46797, 46648, 21085, 9084, 7466, 6534, 5801, 5051, 4655, 4168, 4343, 3105, 2508, 2082, 1200, 488, 121, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] ) fig = plt.figure() plt.bar(range(0,255,8),freq*1./freq.sum(),width=8) # the 1. avoid an integer division that gives 0 everywhere. # width=8 specifies that each bins takes 8 units of width, corresponding to the spacing in range(0,255,8) plt.show() Le 30 nov. 09 à 17:46, Wayne Watson a écrit : > That helped by using the original data of 256 elements. So all the > large values in the array beyond 120 would be tiny bars stretched > out to x of about 127516. OK, now with the original 256 > elements I see some problems. > > Individually, they contain some high counts, so I guess they are > going off scale. This is unfortunate, since the original data > was put into 256 bins by hardware from 307,000 + values. It looks > like what I should be feeding hist, but recreating the 307K from > the 256 seems something of a waste in that it is undoing what the > hardware did. Is there some graph function that will treat the > input as already binned? For example, if I have [10, 7, 5], I want > to see a histogram of three bars, one at x =0 of height 10, one at > x=1 of height 6, and 2 of height 5. x might be some other numbers > like 18.2, 46.3 and 60.1. > > Pierre de Buyl wrote: >> Hello, >> >> hist takes the raw data directly, and not a histogram already >> computed. >> >> If data is an array containing your pixels, >> hist(data, bins = range(0,255,8) , normed=True) should do what you >> expect >> >> The code you sent adequately counts 13 occurences for 0 in freq >> and one at 121, with some rescaling. >> >> Pierre >> >> Le 30 nov. 09 à 16:52, Wayne Watson a écrit : >> >>> I'm working with a Python program that produces freq below. There >>> are 32 >>> bins. The bins represent 0-7, 8-14, ..., 248 - 255 of a set of >>> frequencies (integer counts). 0 to 255 are the brightness pixel >>> values >>> from a 640x480 frame of b/w pixels. I binned 8 into each of 32 >>> bins. One >>> can easily see that the various bins are of a different height. >>> However, >>> the result is fixed height bar from 0 to 10, and a shorter single >>> bar >>> from about 120 to 130. The x-scale goes from 0 to 140 and not >>> from 0 to >>> 255, or somewhere in that range. It seems like hist is clumping >>> everything into two groups. I've changed the range parameter several >>> times and get the same result. I'd send an attachment of the >>> figure, but >>> that often seems to delay a post in most of these Python mail lists. >>> >>> freq = [127516, 8548, 46797, 46648, 21085, 9084, 7466, 6534, 5801, >>> 5051, 4655, 4168, 4343, 3105, 2508, 2082, 1200, 488, 121, 0, 0, >>> 0, 0, 0, >>> 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0] >>> fig = pylab.figure() >>> v = array(freq) >>> plt.hist(v, bins=linspace(0,256,nplt_bins+1), normed=1, range= >>> (30,200)) >>> pylab.show() >>> >>> -- >>> Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) >> >> > > -- > Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) > > (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) > Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 > feet The popular press and many > authorities believe the number > of pedifiles that prowl the web is 50,00. There are no > figures that support this. The number of children below > 18 years of age kidnapped by strangers is 1 in 600,00, > or 115 per year. -- The Science of Fear by D. Gardner > Web Page: <www.speckledwithstars.net/> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
