Placing colored pixels next to each other

Hi Fredrik,

>> Just setting one pixel to red doesn't make a red
pixel at all, it's
>> rather grey. If I make a box (say 5x5) it's a bit
better, but the
>> color isn't confined to the 3x3 box anymore ..
there's a "splatter"
>> of coloring (of lower intensity) in the
neighborhood of my red box.
>
> how are you setting the pixels, and what are you doing
to view the  
> result ?

I tried a couple of ways -- though I thought the best way
for some  
quick testing would be to use what was suggested in
tutorial,  
something like:

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image = Image.new("RGBA", (200,6000))
pix = image.load()
pix[10,10] = (204,0,0) # red -- or (204,0,0,255) if using
RGBA (is  
that the right way, btw?)
image.show()
------

>
>> I'm trying to visualize a 6000x200 matrix (in this
case a microarray)
>> where each pixel would represent an index of the
matrix .. the
>> different colors in each pixel would represent
something else.
>
> 6000x200?  are you sure the artifacts you're seeing
isn't caused by
> whatever program you're using to display the image?  or
do you really
> have a 6000-pixel wide screen?

Ah ... yeah .. I mean, doesn't everybody these days? 

Sorry, I'm used to indices being referenced by row,col -- so
it's  
actually 200 pixels wide by 6000 tall.

I'm using OS X so the show() function is defaulting to use
Preview.app.

The image is certainly much taller than my monitor but not
wider (my  
resolution is only 1440x900 pixels), so it starts off to be
zoomed  
out, but I zoom enough to make the original pixels large
enough to  
look at.

I've actually been playing around with much smaller sized
images  
(30x30) to try some things out before I took a whack at the
"real  
deal" 6000 row microarray, so like in the example above
I'd actually  
have (30,30) instead of (200,6000)

Thanks,
-steve

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