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I am trying to create a ListPlot where the size of each marker is controlled individually.

The best solution I have found so far is to wrap every data point in Style with its own PointSize value, as suggested here

ListPlot[Table[Style[RandomReal[{-2, 2}, 2], PointSize[RandomReal[{0, 0.03}]]], {i, 100}]]

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However, this type of scaling does not allow reducing the size to zero, but keeps the marker size constant at some point:

ListPlot[Table[Style[{i, 2}, PointSize[0.08 - 0.002*i]], {i, 50}]

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How can I ensure that the scaling of the markers is really linear with respect to Pointsize all the way to zero?

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This is certainly suboptimal behavior, if not a bug. You can workaround the issue by using PlotStyle->None and including Opacity[1] in your style:

ListPlot[
    Table[Style[RandomReal[{-2,2},2],Opacity[1],PointSize[RandomReal[{0,0.03}]]],{i,100}],
    PlotStyle->None
]

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And, your second example:

ListPlot[
    Table[Style[{i,2},Opacity[1],PointSize[0.08-0.002*i]],{i,50}],
    PlotStyle->None
]

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  • $\begingroup$ Thank you for providing the work around, that helped a lot :) $\endgroup$
    – Hausdorff
    Apr 14, 2021 at 10:33

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