Re: [Matplotlib-users] Customizing Quiver

2008-06-27 Thread Ryan May
I kind of figured that was the case, upon looking at the code and realizing that the only commonality was in the broad purpose of both representations. Otherwise, there's really no commonality in the details or implementation. I just wanted to see what the "experts" thought before I embarked.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Customizing Quiver

2008-06-27 Thread Eric Firing
Ryan, Quiver is not quite the right starting point, although parts of it might work--and actually it could be bent into shape. The problem with attempting a direct transformation of arrows into wind barbs is that the arrows are formed with a fixed number of vertices, so everything is done wit

[Matplotlib-users] Customizing Quiver

2008-06-27 Thread Ryan May
Hi, Has anyone ever tried to modify quiver to change away from plotting arrows? In my quest to make matplotlib useful the meteorological community at large, I'm trying to be able to plot what we refer to as wind barbs. Basically, instead of an arrow whose size indicates the magnitude of the v