Re: [Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-17 Thread Joachim Saul
Jeff, thanks for your feedback! Jeff Whitaker [15.09.2012 17:25]: On 9/15/12 8:05 AM, Joachim Saul wrote: Hi there, in basemap coastlines are apparently (always?) drawn as closed polygons not exceeding the map boundary, i.e. when the coastline intersects with the map boundary the polygon

[Matplotlib-users] Basemap: Coastlines intersecting with map boundary

2012-09-15 Thread Joachim Saul
Hi there, in basemap coastlines are apparently (always?) drawn as closed polygons not exceeding the map boundary, i.e. when the coastline intersects with the map boundary the polygon is continued along the map boundary until the next intersection point. The somewhat annoying side effect of

[Matplotlib-users] plot range affected by axvspan() call

2011-05-17 Thread Joachim Saul
All, I have stumbled upon a (for me) unexpected behaviour of axvspan(). import matplotlib.pylab as plt from numpy import * x = arange(1000) y = 0.2*sin(0.02*x) ax = plt.axes() plt.axvspan(250, 400, facecolor='g', alpha=0.2) plt.plot(x,y) plt.show() The displayed y range is -0.2 to 1, while

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Zoom function] bug in matplotlib ?

2011-03-30 Thread Joachim Saul
Fabrice Silva [03/30/2011 01:13 PM]: Are you aware of the «zoom out to rectangle» feature (with right click-n-drag, opposed to «zoom to rectangle» with left click-n-drag) ? http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/users/navigation_toolbar.html This is a nice feature that I acually wasn't aware of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Zoom function] bug in matplotlib ?

2011-03-30 Thread Joachim Saul
Fabrice Silva [03/30/2011 02:30 PM]: Le mercredi 30 mars 2011 à 13:49 +0200, Joachim Saul a écrit : But speaking of zooming. How nice would it be to use the mouse wheel for that! Point at a position in the figure and just zoom in towards that point, keeping the (configurable) zoom factor