Re: [Matplotlib-users] How is the size value used to generate symbols?

2008-05-24 Thread Neil Crighton
Thanks! I also found the description under the class RegularPolyCollection in collections.py: * sizes gives the area of the circle circumscribing the regular polygon in points^2 Neil Manuel wrote: Hi Neil, good eyes ;-) Have a look at the scatter documentation: s is a size in points^2.

[Matplotlib-users] How is the size value used to generate symbols?

2008-05-23 Thread Neil Crighton
I'd like to plot values where the area of a marker is proportional to some value. How is the size value given in, say: scatter(x,y,'o',s=10) used to generate the markers? By eye it looks like the size value is proportional to the area (i.e. proportional to the radius squared for circle

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How is the size value used to generate symbols?

2008-05-23 Thread Manuel Metz
Neil Crighton wrote: I'd like to plot values where the area of a marker is proportional to some value. How is the size value given in, say: scatter(x,y,'o',s=10) used to generate the markers? By eye it looks like the size value is proportional to the area (i.e. proportional to the