[yt-users] Custom Colorbar Axis

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Sorry for taking so long to respond to this, I'm catching up on e-mail.

I think you almost had the right approach, but got caught up in the
matplotlib internal API not doing something sensible.  Rather than touching
the colorbar axes, you should instead go through the colorbar object itself:

cb = p.plots[string].cb
cb.set_ticks([0, 0.1, 0.8])

There's an example that does this in the yt docs:

http://yt-project.org/docs/dev/cookbook/custom_colorbar_tickmarks.html

On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:10 PM, Gabriel Goodwin <ggoodwin52 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Does anyone know how to specify the tickmark locations on the colorbar
> axis? I am able to do this on the plot axes without issue, but have not
> been able to successfully do the same with the colorbar.
>
> Attached is a pic of one of my plots using default colorbar axis ticks. I
> have tried to use the following code (and many variants of it I have found
> in the python/matplotlib documentation) to specify the location of the
> tickmarks, but they don't place the ticks accurately. My data is
> temperature plotted over the range of 300K to 5500K and I want to have
> tickmarks at 300K, 800K, 3500K, and 4500K. Also attached is pic of my plot
> showing an attempted custom colorbar axis.
>
> I'm not sure if it makes a difference, but I made the colormap in
> matplotlib.
>
> colorbar_axes = p.plots[string].cax
> colorbar_axes.yaxis.set_ticks([0, 0.1, 0.8])
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
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