Re: [matplotlib-devel] (Wind) Barbs

2008-07-16 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Ryan May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The 2nd alternative, which I haven't > explored, is to set the edgecolor equal to the facecolor and support > colormapping of the edgecolors. > FWIW, pcolor and pcolormesh have also needed this fun

[matplotlib-devel] patch for adding manual label location selection to clabel

2008-07-16 Thread David M. Kaplan
Hi, Attached is a patch (created by issuing svn diff from the matplotlib/trunk/matplotlib directory) for adding the capability to manually select the location of contour labels in clabel. Though the existing algorithm for automatically placing contour labels is very good, for complex figures with

Re: [matplotlib-devel] patch for adding manual label location selection to clabel

2008-07-16 Thread John Hunter
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, David M. Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The patch isn't done - manually selected labels won't be rotated or > inline. There is also a need for general cleaning up and documentation. > I just want to see what people think about the approach before investing >

Re: [matplotlib-devel] (Wind) Barbs

2008-07-16 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Ryan May wrote: Hi, I've got (what seems to me) a nice clean, self-contained implementation of wind barbs plots. I'd like to see if I can get this into matplotlib, as it would be very useful to the meteorology community. I've borrowed heavily from Quiver for rounding out rough edges (like

Re: [matplotlib-devel] patch for adding manual label location selection to clabel

2008-07-16 Thread Michael Droettboom
John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, David M. Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Please let me know what you think. Also, I am wondering if the powers >> that be would be willing to give me commit access to my own branch of >> the matplotlib svn. I don't want to modify the

Re: [matplotlib-devel] patch for adding manual label location selection to clabel

2008-07-16 Thread Eric Firing
John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, David M. Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The patch isn't done - manually selected labels won't be rotated or >> inline. There is also a need for general cleaning up and documentation. >> I just want to see what people think about the ap

Re: [matplotlib-devel] patch for adding manual label location selection to clabel

2008-07-16 Thread Manuel Metz
John Hunter wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 7:20 AM, David M. Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the submission -- I await more informed commentary from > those who actually use contouring > Just because the discussion about clabel started, I want to post a short snipplet of