[Matplotlib-users] Backend Comparison

2009-07-11 Thread Brian Lewis
Does there exist any big-picture comparisons of the provided backends? For example, it would be nice to know what features each backend has or lacks. It would also be nice to which backends were generally faster...and which were recommended (WX or WXAgg). --

[Matplotlib-users] thick lines on top of each other

2009-05-12 Thread Brian Lewis
Hi, I'm trying to plot two thick lines that are separated only by a constant. import matplotlib.pyplot as plt import numpy as np shift = .1 x = np.linspace(0,10,100) y1 = np.sin(x) y2 = y1 + shift lw = 10 alpha = .8 plt.plot(x, y1, linewidth=lw, alpha=alpha) plt.plot(x, y2, linewidth=lw, alpha=al