[yt-users] color bar label in multiple panel projection plot

Desika Narayanan dnarayan at haverford.edu
Fri Aug 15 07:28:43 PDT 2014


Yep that worked - thanks Cameron!


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Cameron Hummels <chummels at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Desika,
>
> Try this instead:
>
> >    px = ProjectionPlot(ds1,'x',("deposit","PartType0_smoothed_density"))
> >    plot = px.plots[('deposit','PartType0_smoothed_density')]
> >    plot.cax.yaxis.set_label_text("N$_H$ g cm$^{-2}$")
>
> Cameron
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 6:21 AM, Desika Narayanan <dnarayan at haverford.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I'm trying to make a plot similar to the pre-fab projection time-series
>> example described here:
>>
>>
>> http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/complex_plots.html#time-series-multipanel
>>
>> I'd love it if the colorbar label didn't say "PartType0_smoothed_density"
>> or whatever, but rather something physical.
>>
>> In the past, I've been able to (thanks to Nathan's advice) access the
>> matplotlib primitives for a single projection plot via something like:
>>
>> >    px = ProjectionPlot(ds1,'x',("deposit","PartType0_smoothed_density"))
>> >    plot = px.plots[('deposit','PartType0_smoothed_density')]
>> >    colorbar_axes = plot.cax
>> >    colorbar_axes.set_ylabel("N$_H$ g cm$^{-2}$")
>>
>>
>> So, similarly, I thought I could try something like:
>>
>> >plot.cax.set_ylabel("N$_H$ g cm$^{-2}$")
>>
>> in the above time-series example, but it doesn't seem to adjust the
>> colorbar label.  I'm sure I'm missing something obvious but can't seem to
>> figure it out - any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> thanks!
>> desika
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>
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