Sorry I was out of touch for a while I have been busy with other things,
You would have to do some sort of a bin solution with the method I suggested.
So m/z values would not have to be exact but you would group ranges of them
together.
To be honest based on the plots you showed in your initial question I am
surprised you don’t already have the data in a 2d array already. An example of
the data in the format you intend to start with would have really helped
explain the situation.
Matplotlib has a plot module that bins things automatically for you based on
the data http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/api/histogram_demo.html or
you can use numpy.historgram function directly. If you are doing something like
that already to compute your m/z values, just make sure use the same sequence
for your bins (see examples at
http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.histogram.html) and
presto you have the makings of a perfectly aligned 2d array that can be plotted
with pcolor or with 3d surface
Again I hope this helps
From: trueflyingsh...@googlemail.com [mailto:trueflyingsh...@googlemail.com] On
Behalf Of Philipp A.
Sent: January-28-11 10:55 AM
To: Mike Alger
Cc: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D Data to 2d Plots
2011/1/28 Mike Alger <mal...@ryerson.ca>
Philip,
A few questions before I give one possible solution,
Does this plot need to be updated in real time ? or is this plot to be done in
post processing?
if you can do the plots with post processing you should be able to use pcolor
function to do your tasks
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/pcolor_demo.html
i won’t go into details but just assign:
X as 1d vector with your m/z values
Y as 1d vector your time values
And Z as a 2d array that will map counts/sec to both a “m/z” and “time” index
You will have to find the location for your other marks and then plot them on
top of pcolor graph but that shouldn’t be too hard just express your values (i
am assuming 3dB cutoff points and peak power of some sort) in terms of X Y. I
am almost certain there is probably a nice DSP way to solve for those X Y
values once the data is in a 2d array but i am no expert on that mater.
Good luck and hopefully this helps,
Mike
hi mike,
thanks for the answer. it looks interesting, but will it work if the m/z values
are all different from each other? i mean: the m/z-ranges are overlapping, but
there are no duplicate values. this way, every column of the array would only
contain one value if i understood you correctly.
thanks,
philipp
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