Thanks JJ. The problem seems not to be a size issue -- markersize has no effect when use marker="," (pixel). I have also tried to turn off aa, and it doesn't help either. I also tried different backends. The PNG output from Agg and Cairo is slightly different: Agg's point has 4 solid pixel, while Cairo's has 4 pixel with random shade.
Postscript output has the same problem. The "pixel" in an EPS file generated by mpl is significantly bigger than that from another drawing program I used. The problem occurs in all my plotting scripts, e.g., this basic one: [CODE] import numpy as np x=np.arange(100) y=np.random.randn(100) ioff() fig=gcf() fig.clf() ax=fig.add_axes(0.15,0.1,0.8, 0.85) ax.plot(x,y,"k,") ion() fig.canvas.draw() [/CODE] Here is how I identify the problem: 1. use the above script to plot on screen 2. savefig("plot.png") 3. open plot.png in GIMP and check the pixel size. I also attached the two PNG files generated with Agg and Cairo backends. On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Jae-Joon Lee <lee.j.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > How are you plotting your points. > > If you use *plot*, there is a *markersize* parameter. > If you use *scatter*, the third argument controls the marker size. > > But you may actually complaining about other issues, e.g., > antialiasing, etc. So, if above are not your answer, please post a > complete example and describe your problem in more detail. > > Regards, > > -JJ > > > On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Chris <plut...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I noticed this a few years back, but left it aside because most of the >> time I can live with it. Recently I need to make a few plots >> containing a few million points, and 4 pixels for a point is a >> disaster. So my question is why the pixel marker size is set at 4 >> pixels? And is there anyway to change it to a single pixel? >> >> Thanks, >> Chris >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Try before you buy = See our experts in action! >> The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers >> is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, >> Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
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