# Code time as color in Plots.jl ... How?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [September 11, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482 "2020-09-11T22:14:04Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 10:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/1 "2020-09-11T22:14:04Z")
Hi,
I am plotting a trajectory in the complex plane. If I plot the whole path Plots.jl offers me this:
I would like to know which way it went from beginning to end. I know that Plots.jl offers us a 3-D plot if you pass in the time, but I do not want that.
**I would like to code the time dimension as color. Is that possible?**
Thank you
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### Author:  [@feanor12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/feanor12)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 10:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/2 "2020-09-11T22:22:03Z")
Have a look at marker\_z.
[http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes\_series/](http://docs.juliaplots.org/latest/generated/attributes_series/)
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### Author:  [@tomerarnon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tomerarnon)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 10:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/3 "2020-09-11T22:31:51Z")
Since your result is a timeseries, you can also do simply e.g. `color=colormap("Blues")`
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 10:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/4 "2020-09-11T22:56:53Z")
> [@tomerarnon](#):
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> color=colormap(“Blues”)
This is how it looks like. A suitable solution to me.
Thanks
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### Author:  [@tomerarnon](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/tomerarnon)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 11:02pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/5 "2020-09-11T23:02:16Z")
Looks like your colormap wraps a few times because it is too short. You can initialize it with `colormap("Blues", N)` where `N` is the length of your data to get a single gradient.
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### Author:  [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/6 "2020-09-11T23:08:39Z")
You also probably want to add ratio=1
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/7 "2020-09-11T23:08:41Z")
Such a good point. Thanks again, much better now
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### Author:  [@VMHidalgo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/VMHidalgo)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2020, 11:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/code-time-as-color-in-plots-jl-how/46482/8 "2020-09-11T23:10:51Z")
With ratio=1 looks even better. Thank you. Such a great community we have here !
