I'm a new user of matplotlib (athough I have been using both Matlab and Python for years).
I have an application where I need to display data as a set of filled circles. The centre and the radius of the circles are both specified in data coordinates. The data points have an additional scalar attribute, which is displayed using a pseudo-colour mapping. I've hacked something together where the circles are approximated by polygons using either the axis fill method or the pylab fill function. I select the colour by calling the get_rgba method of a ScalarMappable object. In the following code snippet c is a tuple containg the x and y coords of the centre of the circle, the radius, and a scalar "value" theta = arange(numSegs+1) * 2.0 * math.pi / numSegs cos_theta = cos(theta) sin_theta = sin(theta) for c in cart: x = c[1] + c[3] * cos_theta y = c[2] + c[3] * sin_theta v = c[4] fill(x, y, facecolor=mapper.to_rgba(v), linewidth=0.5) It all works. However, I saw in the API documentation (and the source) that there is a Circle object in patch. I was hoping that using this rather than polygons would give better quality output and possibly smaller files. Now I can instantiate it circle = Circle((x,y), c[3], facecolor=cmapper.to_rgba(v)) but can't work out what to do with it! I've tried ax.add_patch( circle ) and also trans = blend_xy_sep_transform( ax.transAxes, ax.transData ) circle.set_transform( trans ) ax.add_patch( circle ) Neither work. Any ideas? Regards, Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users