On 2015/05/13 9:36 AM, Neil Girdhar wrote: > I don't know matplotlib well enough (yet) to know what the change would > consist of. > > I suggest you take a look at the beautiful tikz manual: > http://pgf.sourceforge.net/pgf_CVS.pdf
Very helpful, thank you. > > The arrows.meta on page 201–212 are really well-designed and beautiful. > > Compare this with matplotlib's custom arrows: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16968007/custom-arrow-style-for-matplotlib-pyplot-annotate > > How do I make tikz's arrowheads available for all backends? > My guess offhand is that this is a matter of using the mpl API. I don't think we would want to add all of these types and options to the mpl core; but a toolkit might be ideal for this. The mpl API, which generates the same results for all backends, is quite complete and flexible. Things like arrowheads are Patch objects, and you can specify any path you want. The main trick is figuring out how to handle transforms--what kind of coordinates should the path be specifying? How should things scale as a figure is reshaped and resized? For many of these types you could also use mpl Line2D objects, for which several properties including cap style can be specified. Not all of the TikZ options would be available, but perhaps enough. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
