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Hackstein,
Unfortunately, I'm not sure of an 'elegant' way to do what your asking 
with a single call to scatter. Others may know a better way. However, 
you can use rectangle patches and patch collections. (Requires a bit 
more code than scatter but is ultimately more flexible.)
I think the example below does what you need, but with random numbers.
Hope it helps a little.
Ryan
#######################
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from matplotlib.patches import Rectangle
from matplotlib.collections import PatchCollection
n = 100
# Get your xy data points, which are the centers of the rectangles.
xy = np.random.rand(n,2)
# Set a fixed height
height = 0.02
# The variable widths of the rectangles
widths = np.random.rand(n)*0.1
# Get a color map and color values (normalized between 0 and 1)
cmap = plt.cm.jet
colors = np.random.rand(n)
rects = []
for p, w, c in zip(xy, widths, colors):
 xpos = p[0] - w/2 # The x position will be half the width from the 
center
 ypos = p[1] - height/2 # same for the y position, but with height
 rect = Rectangle( (xpos, ypos), w, height ) # Create a rectangle
 rects.append(rect) # Add the rectangle patch to our list
# Create a collection from the rectangles
col = PatchCollection(rects)
# set the alpha for all rectangles
col.set_alpha(0.3)
# Set the colors using the colormap
col.set_facecolor( cmap(colors) )
# Make a figure and add the collection to the axis.
ax = plt.subplot(111)
ax.add_collection(col)
plt.show()
###############################
On 4/24/2013 5:35 PM, Hackstein wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get a scatter plot using a colormap. Additionally, I 
> need to define every marker for every data point individually -- each 
> being a rectangle with fixed height but varying width as a function of 
> the y-value. X and y being the data coordinates, z being a number to 
> be color coded with the colormap.
>
> Ideally, I would like to create a list of width and height values for 
> each data point and tell the scatter plot to use those.
>
> So far I got colormapped data with custom markers (simplified):
>
> [code]
>
> import numpy as np
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>
> from pylab import *
>
> x = y = [1,2,3,4,5]
>
> z = [2,4,6,8,10]
>
> colors = cm.gnuplot2
>
> verts_vec = list(zip([-10.,10.,10.,-10.],[-5.,-5.,5.,5.]))
>
> fig = plt.figure(1, figsize=(14.40, 9.00))
>
> ax = fig.add_subplot(1,1,1)
>
> sc = ax.scatter(x, y, c=np.asarray(z), marker=None, edgecolor='None', 
> verts=verts_vec, cmap=colors, alpha=1.)
>
> plt.colorbar(sc, orientation='horizontal')
>
> plt.savefig('test.png', dpi=200)
>
> plt.close(1)
>
> [/code]
>
> But I need to define a marker size for each point, and I also need to 
> do that in axis scale values, not in points.
>
> I imagine giving verts a list of N*2 tuples instead of 2 tuples, N 
> being len(x), to define N individual markers.
>
> But when doing that I get the error that vertices.ndim==2.
>
> A less elegant way would be to plot every data point in an individual 
> scatter plot function, using a for-loop iterating over all data 
> points. Then, however, I see no way to apply a colormap and colorbar.
>
> What is the best way to accomplish that then?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Hackstein
>
>
>
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I believe this PR fixes this bug:
https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1884
I had been waiting for the original poster to confirm before merging, 
but I think I'll go ahead and do this anyway at this point.
Mike
On 04/23/2013 02:57 PM, Nils Wagner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I cannot install matplotlib. Please find enclosed the logfile of
> python setup.py install --prefix=$HOME/local >& log.txt
>
> Any idea how to resolve the problem is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Nils
>
>
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