Hi, Has anyone ever tried to modify quiver to change away from plotting arrows? In my quest to make matplotlib useful the meteorological community at large, I'm trying to be able to plot what we refer to as wind barbs. Basically, instead of an arrow whose size indicates the magnitude of the vector field, a wind barb consists of a line whose alignment indicates the direction of the vector field (like the arrow) and has a number of lines or triangles along this shaft to indicate wind speed. It's a little odd and domain specific, but it's a must for the meteorologist. We like it because, unlike the arrows, you can pick off the actual wind speed at a point. See here for an example:
http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/info/about_windbarb.html http://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/displaySfc.php?region=abi&endDate=20080627&endTime=-1&duration=0 Has anyone ever tried this (I'm pretty sure I know the answer)? Failing that, can anyone give me an idea of how difficult it might be for me to tweak quiver to do this? Thanks, Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
