rainbowline

A simple library for plotting lines with color gradients in matplotlib.

Usage

The function rainbow_line() has the following arguments:

• x: the x values to plot
• y: the y values to plot
• c: the values to map to a color using the specified cmap. If not provided, the index of x or y will be used if possible.
• cmap: (optional) colormap to apply to the c values. Defaults to 'jet'.
• norm: (optional) normalization for c values. If not given, the min and max values of c will be used. One of the following:
  • matplotlib norm object.
  • float or int: in this case, values will be normalized to the range (0, norm)
  • tuple defining the min and max values to which to normalize
• ax: (optional) matplotlib Axes object on which to plot
• autoscale_view: whether to scale the axes to the extents of the plot. Default True.
• **kwargs: (optional) kwargs which will be passed to matplotlib LineCollection constructor.