.. _pylab_examples-hist_colormapped: pylab_examples example code: hist_colormapped.py ================================================ .. plot:: /home/tcaswell/source/p/matplotlib/doc/mpl_examples/pylab_examples/hist_colormapped.py :: import numpy as np import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import matplotlib.cm as cm import matplotlib.colors as colors fig, ax = plt.subplots() Ntotal = 1000 N, bins, patches = ax.hist(np.random.rand(Ntotal), 20) # I'll color code by height, but you could use any scalar # we need to normalize the data to 0..1 for the full # range of the colormap fracs = N.astype(float)/N.max() norm = colors.Normalize(fracs.min(), fracs.max()) for thisfrac, thispatch in zip(fracs, patches): color = cm.viridis(norm(thisfrac)) thispatch.set_facecolor(color) plt.show() Keywords: python, matplotlib, pylab, example, codex (see :ref:`how-to-search-examples`)