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In making landscapes function well for both humanĪnd natural systems. There are many things to consider when designing anĮxceptional landscape. Using Light to Affect the Perception of Color in the Landscape.Using Color to Affect the Spatial Quality of the Landscape.This means that numeric strings must be parsed to be used for continuous color, and conversely, numbers used as category codes must be converted to strings. If the data is numeric, the color will automatically be considered continuous. Most Plotly Express functions accept a color argument which automatically assigns data values to discrete colors if the data is non-numeric. Legends are the discrete equivalent of continuous color bars Legends are configurable under the layout.legend attribute. Legend markers also change shape when used with various kinds of traces, such as symbols or lines for scatter-like traces. legends are visible representations of the mapping between colors and data values.Color sequence defaults depend on the lorway attribute of the active template, and can be explicitly specified using the color_discrete_sequence argument for many Plotly Express functions. No interpolation occurs when using color sequences, unlike with continuous color scales, and each color is used as-is. color sequences are lists of colors to be mapped onto discrete data values.This document explains the following discrete-color-related concepts: This page is about using color to represent categorical data using discrete colors, but Plotly can also represent continuous values with color. labels), color can be used to represent continuous or discrete data. amounts or moments in time) or categories (i.e. In the same way as the X or Y position of a mark in cartesian coordinates can be used to represent continuous values (i.e.