I am trying to put a colorbar to my image using matplotlib. The issue comes when I try to force the ticklabels to be written in scientific notation. How can I force the scientific notation (ie, 1x10^0, 2x10^0, ..., 1x10^2, and so on) in the ticks of the color bar?
Example, let's create and plot and image with its color bar:
import matplotlib as plot
import numpy as np
img = np.random.randn(300,300)
myplot = plt.imshow(img)
plt.colorbar(myplot)
plt.show()
When I do this, I get the following image:
However, I would like to see the ticklabels in scientific notation... Is there any one line command to do this? Otherwise, is there any hint out there? Thanks!
You could use colorbar
's format
parameter :
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.ticker as ticker
img = np.random.randn(300,300)
myplot = plt.imshow(img)
def fmt(x, pos):
a, b = '{:.2e}'.format(x).split('e')
b = int(b)
return r'${} \times 10^{{{}}}$'.format(a, b)
plt.colorbar(myplot, format=ticker.FuncFormatter(fmt))
plt.show()
您可以指定颜色条刻度的格式,如下所示:
pl.colorbar(myplot, format='%.0e')
There is a more straightforward (but less customizable) way to get scientific notation in a ColorBar
without the %.0e
formatting.
Create your ColorBar
:
cbar = plt.colorbar()
And call the formatter:
cbar.formatter.set_powerlimits((0, 0))
This will make the ColorBar
use scientific notation. See the example figure below to see how the ColorBar
will look.
The documentation for this function can be found here .
It seems that cbar.formatter.set_powerlimits((0,0))
alone in Joseph's answer does not render math format like $10^3$ yet.
Using further cbar.formatter.set_useMathText(True)
gives something like $10^3$.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import numpy as np
img = np.random.randn(300,300)*10**5
myplot = plt.imshow(img)
cbar = plt.colorbar(myplot)
cbar.formatter.set_powerlimits((0, 0))
# to get 10^3 instead of 1e3
cbar.formatter.set_useMathText(True)
plt.show()
generates plot .
See the document of set_useMathText()
here .
PS: Maybe this suits best for a comment. But I do not have enough reputations.
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