colour_bar_index
- pyhelpers.ops.colour_bar_index(cmap, n_colours, labels=None, **kwargs)[source]
Create a colour bar.
To stop making off-by-one errors. Takes a standard colour ramp, and discretizes it, then draws a colour bar with correctly aligned labels.
See also [OPS-CBI-1].
- Parameters:
cmap (matplotlib.colors.ListedColormap) – a colormap instance, e.g. built-in colormaps that is accessible via matplotlib.cm.get_cmap
n_colours (int) – number of colours
labels (list | None) – a list of labels for the colour bar, defaults to
None
kwargs – [optional] parameters of matplotlib.pyplot.colorbar
- Returns:
a colour bar object
- Return type:
matplotlib.colorbar.Colorbar
Examples:
>>> from pyhelpers.ops import colour_bar_index >>> from pyhelpers.settings import mpl_preferences >>> mpl_preferences(backend='TkAgg', font_name='Times New Roman') >>> import matplotlib >>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt >>> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(2, 6), constrained_layout=True) >>> ax = fig.add_subplot() >>> cbar = colour_bar_index(cmap=matplotlib.colormaps['Accent'], n_colours=5) >>> ax.tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=14) >>> cbar.ax.tick_params(labelsize=14) >>> # ax.axis('off') >>> plt.show()
The above example is illustrated in Fig. 4:
>>> fig = plt.figure(figsize=(2, 6), constrained_layout=True) >>> ax = fig.add_subplot() >>> labels_ = list('abcde') >>> cbar = colour_bar_index(matplotlib.colormaps['Accent'], n_colours=5, labels=labels_) >>> ax.tick_params(axis='both', which='major', labelsize=14) >>> cbar.ax.tick_params(labelsize=14) >>> # ax.axis('off') >>> plt.show()
This second example is illustrated in Fig. 5:
>>> plt.close(fig='all')