Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to do million data-point plots with Matplotlib?

2011-12-16 Thread David Smith
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

Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to do million data-point plots with Matplotlib?

2011-12-15 Thread Michael Droettboom
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