Option to depict line plots as vertical bars with different colors

[jameswilburlewis]

From Hector Salinas, [email protected]

This is Hector Salinas, PhD student from UT Arlington working under Rick Wilder and pySPEDAS user. I wanted to ask if there was a in pySPEDAS to plot the solitary wave data as "vertical bars color coded by the count value range" as shown in the below attached image?

The other attached image shows the default visual with spectrogram mode on, and turning it off makes it a line plot.

[jameswilburlewis]

If I understand what you're asking for, that might take a bit of work to implement in pyspedas. I think that effect could be achieved either by making a matplotlib bar chart, or (perhaps better?) using the matplotlib fill_between() method to fill the area under each trace with the correct color. We don't support anything like that right now, as far as I know, but it shouldn't be too difficult to add.

[jameswilburlewis]

Apparently this is done in IDL by setting psym=10, which enables 'histogram mode'.