Re: [Matplotlib-users] square plots with linear equal axes -- help

2009-07-27 Thread Jae-Joon Lee
Well, I think the meaning of the axis("equal") is a bit misleading (at least to me), but if you look at the documentation, it says that it changes the xlimit and ylimit (limits in data coordinate), so this is NOT what you want. What you need is axis("scaled") or axis("image"). http://matplotlib.so

Re: [Matplotlib-users] square plots with linear equal axes -- help

2009-07-26 Thread kbkb
Thanks for trying to help Andreas. Those suggestions did not really solve the problem, but I did realize where I was going astray and post that information here to help others. I did see others new to the libraries looking for similar help. First the conceptual misunderstanding: I did not real

[Matplotlib-users] square plots with linear equal axes -- help

2009-07-25 Thread kbkb
Hi This should be so simple, but I have been struggling for a long time trying to create a square plot of exact dimensions (so a series of them can be overlaid later), with x and y axis limits identical and set by me (preferably without the plot limits updating automatically as I add or delete dat

Re: [Matplotlib-users] square plots with linear equal axes -- help

2009-07-24 Thread plankton
kbkb wrote: > > Hi > This should be so simple, but I have been struggling for a long time > trying to create a square plot of exact dimensions (so a series of them > can be overlaid later), with x and y axis limits identical and set by me > (preferably without the plot limits updating automatica