Thank you very much. That was very helpful.
The only thing now is that I have a set of quiver subplots (in a sparate
figure) that I want to keep aligned to the contour subplots. After adding a
horizontal colorbar at the bottom of the contour figure in a way similar to
the example, I lose the alignment with the quiver plots. The easiest way I
could think of to keep the alignment is to add transparent dummy axes
identical in size to the ones I add to the contour figure. The only thing is
that I don't know how to make everything in the axes transparent. I tried
fiddling with set_alpha(), but I couldn't get it done. Any pointers?
Cheers,
Sharaf
On 28 January 2010 19:23, Eric Firing <efir...@hawaii.edu> wrote:
> Sharaf Al-Sharif wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to make a figure with a column of contourf() subplots using
>> matplotlib.pyplot. The contour plots have the same levels and I only need
>> one color bar. The problem is that I'm not sure how to place the color bar
>> in the figure without messing up the alignment of the subplots. Can someone
>> kindly tell me how this can be done? Thanks in advance.
>>
>
> See this example:
> http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/multi_image.html
>
> and look at the colorbar docstring.
>
> The example is probably more complicated than what you are talking about.
> The basic point, though, is that you need to explicitly make the axes for
> the colorbar, and supply that via the "cax" kwarg, instead of letting
> colorbar make its own axes by stealing space from some other axes object.
> You can still use a set of subplots; you may need to use subplots_adjust to
> scoot them up or over, to leave room for your colorbar.
>
> Eric
>
>
>> Sharaf
>>
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