Re: [Matplotlib-users] svg/image output

2012-11-26 Thread Benjamin Root
On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Jeffrey Melloy jmel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm currently using matplotlib to generate .PNG files, and the javascript library flot to do point hover zooming on the same data (after click through). Flot is starting to show its age, and I'd like a little more

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Why is pip not mentioned in the Installation Documentation?

2012-11-26 Thread Russell E. Owen
In article 955a698f5edf4fbb9168429b718f5...@gmail.com, Ludwig Schwardt ludwig.schwa...@gmail.com wrote: Pip works beautifully on the Mac since Lion, once you install pkg-config. This allows matplotlib to pick up the dependencies from the system (i.e. libpng, libfreetype and zlib) I

Re: [Matplotlib-users] N parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Thursday, November 22, 2012 23:51:08 TP wrote: Thus it seems to me that my dummy example given in the previous post covers exactly the problem encountered in my real-world imshow function. Is there a memory-efficient workaround in my dummy example (instead of increasing N)? I have

Re: [Matplotlib-users] N parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Monday, November 26, 2012 12:06:40 Eric Firing wrote: I'm glad you found a solution, but my sense is that the problem is that you are trying to make the colormap do the work of the norm. The colormap is just a set of discrete colors, with a linear mapping to the 0-1 scale (apart from the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] N parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/11/26 12:18 PM, TP wrote: On Monday, November 26, 2012 12:06:40 Eric Firing wrote: I'm glad you found a solution, but my sense is that the problem is that you are trying to make the colormap do the work of the norm. The colormap is just a set of discrete colors, with a linear mapping

Re: [Matplotlib-users] N parameter of LinearSegmentedColormap

2012-11-26 Thread TP
On Monday, November 26, 2012 14:10:31 Eric Firing wrote: But how many colors can you actually distinguish on the screen, or in a plot? My impression is that the problem is not lack of colors, but rather mapping to the color you want. There is no reason that having a value in your *data* of