Re: [Matplotlib-users] color normaliztion for an contourf plot

Jordan Dawe wrote:
> So I have a contourf plot and I am resetting the ylims so as to only 
> display a subset of the full contourf plot.  Is there anyway to set norm 
> and the colorbar so they take their colormapping settings using the data 
> currently on display?  By which I mean: the full dataset has a range of 
> 260-320.  The reset axes limits display a region that only has values 
> between 280-310.  I'd like the colormap to extend over this range of 
> values automatically, without having to set vmin=280, vmax=310.  Any way 
> to do that?

Jordan,

I don't think so; and although I have not thought hard about it, my 
impression is that adding this capability would take a lot of work and 
redesign.  I expect that in most cases what you describe would not be 
the desired behavior, so it would have to be a non-default option.

Eric