[Matplotlib-users] Basemap 0.99.4 and MPL 0.99.0

2010-01-30 Thread John Shields
Am trying to climb the AIPY mountain and as pre-reqs am trying to get basemap installed. On Ubuntu 9.10 and have Python 2.6.4 and setuptools for easy_install. Using Synaptic I have installed MPL 0.99.0 and, using the installation instructions for 'other platforms' Have installed GEOS and libgeos_c

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Setting dash size and gap of dashed line in matplotlib

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Firing
per freem wrote: > hi all, > > I am plotting certain dashed lines in matplotlib, using: > > plt.plot(x, y, '--') > > I'd like to set the dash size (i.e. length of each dash) and the gap > between the dashes of the plotted line. Is there a way to set this > from matplotlib? plt.plot([0,1], [2,3]

[Matplotlib-users] Setting dash size and gap of dashed line in matplotlib

2010-01-30 Thread per freem
hi all, I am plotting certain dashed lines in matplotlib, using: plt.plot(x, y, '--') I'd like to set the dash size (i.e. length of each dash) and the gap between the dashes of the plotted line. Is there a way to set this from matplotlib? thanks. ---

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Possible bug with contour, alpha blending and vector output

2010-01-30 Thread Jouni K . Seppänen
Moving to the devel list, since this concerns an internal API of matplotlib. Thanks to Sourav for reporting this and to Eric for sending the note to me. Eric Firing writes: > Sourav K. Mandal wrote: >> I have a simple problem: when outputting to PDF or SVG, alpha blending >> does not work for th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Problem using TeX

2010-01-30 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Freitag, 29. Januar 2010 21:00:04 schrieb Sebastian Busch: > Florian Lindner wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I try to use LaTeX in my plot > > > > flor...@horus:~> cat .matplotlib/matplotlibrc > > text.usetex: true > > > > My plotting code looks like: > > > > Ma = arange(1.0, 5.0, 0.01

[Matplotlib-users] new marker: how to make a spiral

2010-01-30 Thread Eric Emsellem
Hi I am using "verts" in the matplotlib scatter function and managed to create many new symbols for scatter plots. One I cannot make is a spiral-like symbol (logarithmic spiral) because it does connect the first and last point of the verts series of x,y points I am defining. Is there a way to avoi