[yt-users] forcing ticks on colorbar

Ricarda Beckmann ricarda.beckmann at astro.ox.ac.uk
Mon Jun 1 09:43:19 PDT 2015


Hi Nathan,

that did indeed fix it. Thanks for your help.

Ricarda

> On 1 Jun 2015, at 17:33, Nathan Goldbaum <nathan12343 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> This is likely happening because the field you are plotting defaults to a logarithmically scaled colorbar and there is less than one decade of variation in the plotted field.
> 
> What happens when you switch to linear colorbar scaling? You'll need to use the set_log function that is attached to yt plot objects.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Ricarda Beckmann <ricarda.beckmann at astro.ox.ac.uk <mailto:ricarda.beckmann at astro.ox.ac.uk>> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I keep producing projection plots where the colorbar is completely devoid of ticks and ticklabels so I don’t actually know what sort of densities/temperatures etc I am looking at.
> 
> I have found this tutorial: http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/custom_colorbar_tickmarks.html?highlight=colorbar <http://yt-project.org/doc/cookbook/custom_colorbar_tickmarks.html?highlight=colorbar> but I’d rather just let the values be determined automatically. Currently I’m not even sure what order of magnitude I am looking at.
> 
> Is there a way to force yt to show a minimum number of tick marks on the colorbar? I have a feeling this questions has been answered before but the archive is still down apparently.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> Ricarda
> 
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