Re: [Matplotlib-users] interpolation and colormaps, over and under colors

On 05/27/2010 09:32 AM, T J wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am plotting with imshow() and interpolation is turned on
> ('gaussian').  Part of my issue is that the distribution of values is
> such that I need to set the over/under colors to grab the most
> relevant values.  If I set the over color to be the "maximum" color,
> then the result is too dark.  Conversely for the under color.  I can
> set the over/under colors to not draw, but then I have "holes" in my
> image.  Is it possible to incorporate interpolation?  That is, I would
> like to set my over color to be interpolated among its neighboring
> cells.  This seems like it would require an (more) "intelligent"
> colormap, so my guess is that this isn't currently supported.  I'm
> growing more comfortable with the mpl internals and might give a stab
> at implementing this, but I'm not quite sure where to start.
>
> Thanks in advance.


I'm not sure I understand the problem; could you provide a tiny example 
to illustrate?

Eric