Creating a color map legend from a lookup table

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I would like to create a color map legend that shows the value associated with each color displayed in another drawing. Let’s say I have the scalar to color mapping, is there an off-the-shelf function in Julia to draw something like that perhaps in GLVisualize?

2

Will this code excerpt, which is slightly modified from one of the examples provided, help? For more info, please check the attributes section:

using Plots
pyplot()

xs = [string("x", i) for i = 1:10]
ys = [string("y", i) for i = 1:4]
z = float((1:4) * (1:10)')
heatmap(xs, ys, z, aspect_ratio = 1, colorbar_title = "My Title")
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Can’t verify it because of the following error.

julia> savefig(fig,"testfig.png")
ERROR: KeyError: key "set_facecolor" not found
 in getindex(::PyCall.PyObject, ::String) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia\v0.5\PyCall\sr
c\PyCall.jl:264
 in getindex(::PyCall.PyObject, ::Symbol) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia\v0.5\PyCall\sr
c\PyCall.jl:269
 in _before_layout_calcs(::Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}) at C:\Users\mohd\.ju
lia\v0.5\Plots\src\backends\pyplot.jl:1077
 in prepare_output(::Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia\v0
.5\Plots\src\plot.jl:247
 in show(::IOStream, ::MIME{Symbol("image/png")}, ::Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBacke
nd}) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia\v0.5\Plots\src\output.jl:196
 in png(::Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}, ::String) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia\v0.
5\Plots\src\output.jl:8
 in savefig(::Plots.Plot{Plots.PyPlotBackend}, ::String) at C:\Users\mohd\.julia
\v0.5\Plots\src\output.jl:116
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This error arises because Plots.jl’s PyPlot backend now requires Matplotlib version 2.0+. The old key name was :set_axis_bgcolor. You can change it in your local copy of Plots (at the file/line listed above) if you can’t update Matplotlib easily. (This was the only thing I needed to change in a similar situation.)

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You can change the plotting backend to something else, e.g., pyplot() to gr().

6

Tried it with gr and it worked. Seems promising, but I think I will stick with VTK for now. Thanks. That’s a glimpse of what I am working on btw.

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I am not sure if you have privileges, but if you do have, please consider marking the corresponding response as the answer to the question for easy access later on.

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Seems like I can’t, perhaps the privileges rules changed cuz I remember I used to be able to.

ETA: Bookmarked it.