On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Chloe Lewis <chle...@berkeley.edu> wrote: >> >> Would it be workable for the default to be proportional to the size of the >> array passed in? (suggested only because I do that myself, when deciding how >> coarse an investigative plot I can get away with.) >> >> &C >> > > That is pretty much what the PR I was referring to does: > > https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/1040 > > It makes it so that the behavior of both plot_surface and plot_wireframe is > the same in this respect. So, by default, the rstride and cstride would be > 1% of the size of your data array. This would make the default for the > recent example be 1, therefore showing every point. I wonder if a > logarithmic default would make sense to better handle large data arrays? > > Thoughts? > Ben Root
I hope nobody minds if I chime in here. I'm in favour of making the defaults a little more intelligent that what is implemented at present, i.e, a constant stride for any surface. Any non-trivial scaling law to determine what stride to use will result in more expected behaviour than what our users are currently seeing. Could we do better? Could we have plot_surface try and estimate the stride based on the 'roughness' of the surface to be plotted? This method would grind to a halt for very rough surfaces, so we could default to a scaling law in these cases. What does everyone think about this approach? -- Damon McDougall http://www.damon-is-a-geek.com Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences 201 E. 24th St. Stop C0200 The University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX 78712-1229 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial Remotely access PCs and mobile devices and provide instant support Improve your efficiency, and focus on delivering more value-add services Discover what IT Professionals Know. Rescue delivers http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein_12329d2d _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
