On Friday 19 October 2007 10:20:43 am John Hunter wrote: > On 10/19/07, Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't remember how to find the answer. It looks like scatter() creates > > polygons, while plot() uses draw_markers: > > I see -- scatter uses collections, and the defaut Renderer implements > PolygonCollection drawing through draw_polygon. This is correct, > because draw_markers assumes homogeneous markers, and scatter > implicitly assumes markers which vary in either size or shape (else > just use plot). > > As for the alpha problem, I committed a change yesterday to fix alpha > with the facecolor argument to scatter. Are you working off of the > latest SVN?
I am. Here is the eps generated from the script in my previous email. For scatter, alpha=0 causes the markers to not be drawn but not filled. For plot, alpha=0 causes the markers to be drawn and filled. Also, scatter does not respect the marker shape when drawing the legend. Darren
<<attachment: alpha.eps>>
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