I am trying to create a scatter plot using matplotlib where each point has a specific color value.
I scale the values and then apply alpha blending between a 'left' and a 'right' color.
# initialization
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
from sklearn.preprocessing import MinMaxScaler
import numpy as np
values = np.random.rand(1134)
# actual code
colorLeft = np.array([112, 224, 112])
colorRight = np.array([224, 112, 112])
scaled = MinMaxScaler().fit_transform(values.reshape(-1, 1))
colors = np.array([a * colorRight + (1 - a) * colorLeft for a in scaled], dtype = np.int64)
# check values here
f, [sc, other] = plt.subplots(1, 2)
sc.scatter(np.arange(len(values)), values, c = colors)
However the last line gives the error:
'c' argument has 1134 elements, which is not acceptable for use with 'x' with size 1134, 'y' with size 1134
The scatter documentation says for parameter c
c : color, sequence, or sequence of color, optional
The marker color. Possible values:
A single color format string. A sequence of color specifications of length n. A sequence of n numbers to be mapped to colors using cmap and norm. A 2-D array in which the rows are RGB or RGBA.
Where I want to use the last option with RGB values.
I replaced the check values here
comment with some print statements:
print(values)
print(colors)
print(values.shape)
print(colors.shape)
which gave the results:
[0.08333333 0.08333333 0.08333333 ... 1. 1. 1.08333333]
[[112 224 112]
[112 224 112]
[112 224 112]
...
[214 121 112]
[214 121 112]
[224 111 112]]
(1134,)
(1134, 3)