I draw a map of a parameter with matplotlib and cartopy. Use cartopy crs Mercator (also I tried AlbersEqualArea - result is the same).
An array (2d as it's a mesh) has some float values like 1.1 - 5.65 etc, but the main part are 0.000000000000000000e+00 values.
So, for levels=0.1,0.3,0.5,1,1.5,2,3,5,7,10,20,30,40,50
cntr = ax.contourf(lons, lats, array, levels = levels, cmap = cmap, norm = norm, transform = ccrs.PlateCarree(), extend = ext, zorder=1)
gives a map where all float zero values are in blue, so as per scale it's 0.3 value (it doesn't depend on values given in levels).
Three things help to generate a map normally:
Changing crs - for PlateCarree it's ok, for Merkator not, for Albers also not.
Changing north maximum latitude (76 for Merkator works, 78 - doesn't), but for Albers this doesn't help.
Adding array = np.where(array<0.3,float(0),array) - works for all
Also it can't be fixed by changing parameters extend or norm (tried all variants).
Question is: what sort of bug is it, where is the problem, how to fix it completely.
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I am utilizing the pcolormesh function in Matplotlib to plot a series of gridded data (in parallel) across multiple map domains. The code snippet relevant to this question is as follows:
im = ax2.pcolormesh(xgrid, ygrid, data.variable.data[0], cmap=cmap, norm=norm, alpha=0.90, facecolor=None)
Where: xgrid = array of longitude points, ygrid = array of latitude points, data.variable.data[0] = array of corresponding data values, cmap = defined colormap, & norm = defined value normalization
Consider the following image generated from the provided code:
The undesired result I've found in the image above is what appears to be outlines around each grid square, or perhaps better described as patchwork that stands out slightly as the mesh alpha is reduced below 1.
I've set facecolor=None assuming that would remove these outlines, to no avail. What additions or corrections can I make to remove this feature?
I want to fill a 2D image along its polar radius, the data are stored in a image where each row or column corresponds to the radius in target image. How can I fill the target image efficiently? Such as with iradius or some functions? I do not prefer a pix-pix operation.
Are you looking for something like this?
number maxR = 100
image rValues := realimage("I(r)",4,maxR)
rValues = 10 + trunc(100*random())
image plot :=realimage("Ring",4,2*maxR,2*maxR)
rValues.ShowImage()
plot.ShowImage()
plot = rValues.warp(iradius,0)
You might also want to check out the relevant example code from the F1 help documentation of GMS itself:
Explaining warp a bit:
plot = rValues.warp(iradius,0)
Assigns values to plot based on a value-lookup in rValues.
For each pixel in plot a coordinate position in rValues is computed, and the value is simply looked up. If the computed coordinate is non-integer, bilinear interpolation between the 4 closest points is used.
In the example, the two 'formulas' for the coordinate calculation are simple x' = iradius and y' = 0 where iradius is an expression computed from the coordinate in plot, for convenience.
You can feed any expression into the parameters for warp( ) and the command is closely related to just using the square bracket notation of addressing values. In fact, the only difference is that warp performs the bilinear interpolation of values instead of truncating the coordinates to integer values.
Say you have the matrix given by three arrays, being:
x = N-dimensional array.
y = M-dimensional array.
And z is a set of "somewhat random" values from -0.3 to 0.3 in a NxM shape. I need to create a plot in which the x values are in the x-axis, y values are in the y-axis and using z as the source to indicate the intensity of each pixel with a color map.
So far, I have tried using
plt.contourf(x,y,z)
and the resulting plot is very nice for me (attached at the end of this paragraph), but a smoothing is automatically applied to the plot! I need to be able to distinguish the pixels and I cannot find a way to do it.
contourf result
I have also studied the possibility of using
ax.matshow(z)
in order to sucesfully see the pixels... but then I am struggling trying to personalize the x and y axis, since only the index of the pixel is shown (see below).
matshow result
Would you please give me some ideas? Thank you.
Without more information on your x,y data it's hard to know, but I would guess you are looking for pcolormesh.
plt.pcolormesh(x,y,z)
This would take the x and y data as input and hence shows the z data at the appropriate coordinates.
You can use imshow with the keyword interpolation='nearest'.
plt.imshow(z, interpolation='nearest')
I'm plotting multiple curves in loglog scale in matplotlib and, to make them distinguishable, I'm using markers. Since there are a lot of data points, I use markevery=100. But with the horizontal axis on the logarithmic scale, these get clustered. Is there a way to get the markers to space out logarithmically too?
Rather than specifying an integer for markevery which will place a marker at every Nth datapoint, use a float which ensures that the points will be equally spaced along the line (regardless of whether a linear or log scale is used).
every=0.1, (i.e. a float) then markers will be spaced at approximately equal distances along the line; the distance along the line between markers is determined by multiplying the display-coordinate distance of the axes bounding-box diagonal by the value of every.
t = np.arange(0.01, 30, 0.01)
plt.loglog(t, 20 * np.exp(-t / 10.0), '-o', markevery=0.1)
I'm trying to display 2D data with axis labels using both contour and pcolormesh. As has been noted on the matplotlib user list, these functions obey different conventions: pcolormesh expects the x and y values to specify the corners of the individual pixels, while contour expects the centers of the pixels.
What is the best way to make these behave consistently?
One option I've considered is to make a "centers-to-edges" function, assuming evenly spaced data:
def centers_to_edges(arr):
dx = arr[1]-arr[0]
newarr = np.linspace(arr.min()-dx/2,arr.max()+dx/2,arr.size+1)
return newarr
Another option is to use imshow with the extent keyword set.
The first approach doesn't play nicely with 2D axes (e.g., as created by meshgrid or indices) and the second discards the axis numbers entirely
Your data is a regular mesh? If it doesn't, you can use griddata() to obtain it. I think that if your data is too big, a sub-sampling or regularization always is possible. If the data is too big, maybe your output image always will be small compared with it and you can exploit this.
If you use imshow() with "extent" and "interpolation='nearest'", you will see that the data is cell-centered, and extent provided the lower edges of cells (corners). On the other hand, contour assumes that the data is cell-centered, and X,Y must be the center of cells. So, you need to be care about the input domain for contour. The trivial example is:
x = np.arange(-10,10,1)
X,Y = np.meshgrid(x,x)
P = X**2+Y**2
imshow(P,extent=[-10,10,-10,10],interpolation='nearest',origin='lower')
contour(X+0.5,Y+0.5,P,20,colors='k')
My tests told me that pcolormesh() is a very slow routine, and I always try to avoid it. griddata and imshow() always is a good choose for me.