Alpha: transparency

This example demonstrates using alpha for transparency.

import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

size = 256,16
dpi = 72.0
figsize= size[0] / float(dpi), size[1] / float(dpi)
fig = plt.figure(figsize=figsize, dpi=dpi)
fig.patch.set_alpha(0)
plt.axes([0, 0.1, 1, .8], frameon=False)

for i in range(1, 11):
    plt.axvline(i, linewidth=1, color='blue', alpha= .25 + .75 * i / 10.)

plt.xlim(0, 11)
plt.xticks([])
plt.yticks([])
plt.show()

Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.019 seconds)