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Adding multiple plots with different colorsChanging background color of figureChanging color based on valueChanging line color of a plotChanging the background color of a plotChanging the color of axesChanging the color of tick labelsDrawing semi-transparent plotsFilling in the area above a curveFilling in the area underneath a curveGetting specific color value from a color mapInverting color mapsMaking the background figure transparentShading an area
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Inverting color maps in Matplotlib
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schedule Mar 10, 2022
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expand_more To invert a color map in Matplotlib, attach the _r suffix to the color map, like so:
x = [1,2,3]y = [4,5,6]z = [100, 200, 300]plt.scatter(x, y, c=z, cmap=plt.cm.gray_r, s=200, edgecolor='black')plt.show()
Here, the key is that we used gray_r instead of gray, which reverses the color map.
The output we get is as follows:
Since we used the inverted color map, the higher the value, the darker it is.
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