[AstroPy] AstroPy Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1

John K. Parejko john.parejko at yale.edu
Thu Nov 1 16:44:18 EDT 2012


You can specify the bins argument as the lower bound of each bin:

bins = np.arange(0,600)

matplotlib's help for hexbin is quite good, accessible via help within python, or the matplotlib api website:

http://matplotlib.org/api/pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.hexbin

John

On 1Nov 2012, at 16:34, Sebastian wrote:

> On a followup hexbin question that I'm having some trouble with:
> Is there a simple way to rescale the zmin and zmax values for the colorscale in the z dimension? 
> 
> For example i have the following hexbin map: "https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28810956/hexbin.png",  and wish to re-scale the Z data counts to 0 --> 600, instead of ~-370 --> 900?
> 
> many thanks in advance,
> - Sebastian




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