, the ellipses on the phase tensor plots seem to be shown with more gradations of colour than are shown in the colour bars. Please fix the colour bars.

[WenpingGA]

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[alkirkby]

Hi @WenpingGA, thanks for pointing this out. I had a quick look and is indeed an issue - when running mtpy/examples/scripts/plot_phase_tensor_section.py with ellipse_colorby=skew_seg and ellipse_range=[-12,12,6] the colour bar is showing up as segmented but if you look carefully at the ellipses there are in-between shades present. It might take some time for me to work this out. In the meantime, @kujaku11 or @rh-downunder are you able to look at it or do you have any ideas?

[kujaku11]

The issue was in how the colors were made in mtcolors.get_plot_colors. I've a line that will convert the color based on the step and bounds given.

[alkirkby]

Cool thanks @kujaku11 for addressing this - however I think the colours still aren't quite right... when you look carefully the colors in the legend in the intermediate range (not min or max or near zero) are not quite the same as those in the legend... could you check?

[kujaku11]

Not sure, it looks the same on my screen. It might be that there is an alpha that is used internally in matplotlib.patches.Ellipse that isn't matched in the color bar. I'm not sure if we can fix that.

[kujaku11]

I just checked and the color tuples are the same for the color bar and the ellipses, so there must be some sort of rendering done internally in matplotlib that I'm not privy to.

[geojunky]

Just wondering if rasterizing the ellipses (rasterized=True) and the colorbar as well, as in here might help.