On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Brian Larsen <balar...@lanl.gov> wrote: > Hey all, > I think I know the answer here as "no" or something, but say I have a curve > I want to plot and I want the color to change along the curve to denote the > 3rd variable is there anyway to do this is matplotlib? > What I mean is take the simple plot > from pylab import * > plot(range(30), range(30, 60), lw=10) > and say that the 3rd variable is > inten = [val ** 2 for val in range(30)] > then can the line change color along its length according to a specified > color table? > In IDL this is done by just giving a color array with the same length as the > data then the line changes with the current colortable.
Try this: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/multicolored_line.html Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
