#!/usr/bin/env python # a polar scatter plot; size increases radially in this example and # color increases with angle (just to verify the symbols are being # scattered correctlu). In a real example, this would be wasting # dimensionlaity of the plot from pylab import * N = 150 r = 2*rand(N) theta = 2*pi*rand(N) area = 200*r**2*rand(N) colors = theta ax = subplot(111, polar=True) c = scatter(theta, r, c=colors, s=area) c.set_alpha(0.75) show()