I have experimented with path.simplify and can't see any appreciable
improvements.
Incidently, I also experimented with other back ends. I found that all the
back ends
involving Agg behave similarly. However, using the 'GTK' backend it
renders the
whole 1 million points and does it very fast
On 12/10/2011 01:12 PM, David Smith wrote:
I have been working on a program that uses Matplotlib to plot data
consisting of around one million points. Sometimes the plots succeed but
often I get an exception: OverFlowError: Agg rendering complexity exceeded.
Are you sure path simplification is