On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote:
> Just as a quick question that I would like to throw out. It isn't a bug, > but rather an aesthetics issue that I caused for the version 1.0 release. > > With allowing 3d plots to be made subplottable, the margins for the plot > area became a lot smaller than for the original method of producing 3d > plots. This is because of the default region for subaxes, which usually > matches the plotting region for a normal plot. However, 3d plots have been > explicitly setting the viewing area to take up the entire axes rather than > obeying the rcParams. With subplotting (or even creating a single plot > using fig.gca() ), the rcParams override the explicit setting of the plot > area. Therefore, 3d plots appear "squished" if created using the > projection='3d' approach. > > My question is this: Would it at all be feasible (or even desirable) to have > some sort of ability to specify defaults that are specific to a particular > axes type? Currently, the code for setting the parameters will grab the > rcparams if the figure is being newly created, or will copy the parameters > from an existing figure in the case of creating subplots in an existing > figure. This assumes a one-size-fits-all which 3d plots might need to be an > exception. Punting on the larger question.... others may have an opinion. If it is a feature not a bug, can you commit new baseline images for the buildbot and see if we can get it to go green? JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
