Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-15 Thread Ian Thomas
Chris Barker wrote: hmm -- I wonder if a post to matplotlib-devel is in order. Most of those folks are on this list, to, but may not be following this thread. I'll post to matplotlib-devel shortly and see what response I get. By the way, it sounds like your contouring code is in C++ -- is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-15 Thread Eric Firing
Ian Thomas wrote: Chris Barker wrote: I think it would be great to have in MPL. What code are you using for the triangulation? Does it do constrained delauney? My code only does the contouring; you have to input the triangulation. In the examples included with the code I used

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-11 Thread Ian Thomas
Chris Barker wrote: ... snip ... To summarise, you recommend the following units of functionality: 1) Triangulation class to wrap existing delaunay code. 2) Separate the storage of and creation of contour sets so that you can create your own. 3) tricontour and tricontourf functions to contour a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Barker
Ian Thomas wrote: To summarise, you recommend the following units of functionality: 1) Triangulation class to wrap existing delaunay code. The idea here is that it would provide a class that holds the result of the triangulation. Yes, it would use the existing delaunay code by default, and

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-11 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-03-11 13:38 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Ian Thomas wrote: To summarise, you recommend the following units of functionality: 1) Triangulation class to wrap existing delaunay code. The idea here is that it would provide a class that holds the result of the triangulation. Yes, it would use

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-11 Thread Chris Barker
Robert Kern wrote: the triangulation. Yes, it would use the existing delaunay code by default, and hopefully optionally use the not-as-good-a-license code the Robert Kern put in SciPy. I did what now? I thought you'd put a wrapper of a delaunay code that is GPL'd or something (not BSD

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-11 Thread Robert Kern
On 2010-03-11 15:49 PM, Chris Barker wrote: Robert Kern wrote: the triangulation. Yes, it would use the existing delaunay code by default, and hopefully optionally use the not-as-good-a-license code the Robert Kern put in SciPy. I did what now? I thought you'd put a wrapper of a delaunay

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-10 Thread Ian Thomas
Chris Barker wrote: I think it would be great to have in MPL. What code are you using for the triangulation? Does it do constrained delauney? My code only does the contouring; you have to input the triangulation. In the examples included with the code I used matplotlib.delaunay to do the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-09 Thread Ian Thomas
Hello all, I submitted some code to matplotlib-users last September to perform contouring of triangular grids. The posts and code can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4AB3B95B.3090903%40noaa.govforum_name=matplotlib-users Like I wrote at the time, if it is

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-09 Thread Chris Barker
Ian Thomas wrote: I submitted some code to matplotlib-users last September to perform contouring of triangular grids. The posts and code can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4AB3B95B.3090903%40noaa.govforum_name=matplotlib-users Like I wrote at the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-08 Thread gely
Christopher Barker wrote: Erik Schweller wrote: My overall goal is to generate contour plots for a wide range of input data. The data points are not regularly spaced and do not align to any grid. The data points represent measurements taken from a model that can take on a variety of

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-08 Thread Christopher Barker
gely wrote: As I think about it, I'm going to have to write code to do this (contour an unstructured triangular mesh) sometime soon, so please let me know if it does exist already -- if not I'll try to remember to contribute it when I get around to it. -Chris Chris, I found this old

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2010-03-08 Thread gely
Christopher Barker wrote: gely wrote: As I think about it, I'm going to have to write code to do this (contour an unstructured triangular mesh) sometime soon, so please let me know if it does exist already -- if not I'll try to remember to contribute it when I get around to it.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Contour Plotting of Varied Data on a Shape

2009-08-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Erik Schweller wrote: My overall goal is to generate contour plots for a wide range of input data. The data points are not regularly spaced and do not align to any grid. The data points represent measurements taken from a model that can take on a variety of shapes. To make matters more