Add alpha to an existing matplotlib colormap

python matplotlib colormap
Hennadii Madan picture Hennadii Madan · May 19, 2016 · Viewed 16.1k times · Source

I'd like to make an overlay of several hexbin plots, but with builtin colormaps only the last one is visible. I don't want to construct a colormap de novo. How one would add linear alpha to the colormap without knowing the inner structure of the colormap beforehand?

Answer

Bart picture Bart · May 19, 2016

I'm not quite sure if this qualifies within "not knowing the inner structure of the colormap", but perhaps something like this would work to add a linear alpha to an existing colormap?

import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pylab as pl
from matplotlib.colors import ListedColormap

# Random data
data1 = np.random.random((4,4))

# Choose colormap
cmap = pl.cm.RdBu

# Get the colormap colors
my_cmap = cmap(np.arange(cmap.N))

# Set alpha
my_cmap[:,-1] = np.linspace(0, 1, cmap.N)

# Create new colormap
my_cmap = ListedColormap(my_cmap)

pl.figure()
pl.subplot(121)
pl.pcolormesh(data1, cmap=pl.cm.RdBu)
pl.colorbar()

pl.subplot(122)
pl.pcolormesh(data1, cmap=my_cmap)
pl.colorbar()

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