No, it is not. The Z channel is an aditional number per pixel that haves the information of the deepness. When you render an image you can keep this information for adding mist, without rendering again, for example.
I don't know if I have been able to explain myself, my mind is not really clear today. ;-) On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Daπid <davidmen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Does MPL support in any way the Z channel? If not, is there any >> possibility to use it? For example, to create a parallel matrix of the >> same dimensions of the image with the values of Z in each pixel. >> >> Thank you very much. >> >> David. >> > > David, I am not entirely certain I understand what you mean. Perhaps you > are speaking of Z-order? Using the zorder kwarg in various plotting > commands, I can manually control the order in which elements are rendered. > When figures are saved, depending on the file format, this information can > get "flattened", and therefore lost, and other formats (most of the > vector-based formats) maintain this information, I believe. > > Does that help? > Ben Root > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
