Eric Firing wrote:
Jordan,
Are you sure you want to use a LineCollection for this? If you do, someone is sure to say, "But I want red arrows with black borders..."
My impression from the earlier posts on this topic was that part of the trouble
was an attempt to be too clever and too automatic; this was interfering with
getting the transforms right so that the arrows would look right, like text,
regardless of how the axes are stretched or squished. Maybe the LineCollection
makes this easier, but I am reasonably sure it can be done cleanly and well
with PolyCollections also. (I am biased toward the PolyCollection approach
because it is closer to the m_vec.m functionality I added to Rich Pawlowicz's
m_map; I will need something like this for basemap if it does not already
exist.)
Eric
No, I am not sure we want to use LineCollection. I am using it because
it is harder to see the distortions introduced by data coordinates when
lines are used instead of polygons. I don't understand the transforms
and I feel I have zero chance of getting a good looking plot in a
reasonable length of time working with polygons. So I've been going the
LineCollection way for two reasons: one, Gary's post with his line arrow
seemed to indicate he was working in that direction as well (although it
appears I was hasty to assume that, judging by his follow-up post), and
two, because I figured I could get something going quickly and then
build on it. So really, this isn't a transform issue anymore, because
I've abandoned that idea as beyond my abilities.
If you all feel that turning quiver into line objects isn't a good idea,
then there's not really much work I can do on it; the polygons work as
well as they are going to as-is.
Also, a question: why use collection objects? The implimentation
doesn't strike me as being much faster rendering wise, but maybe I'm
wrong. Is it just so all the objects can be manipulated all at once by
changing the state of the collection? Also, is there any particular
reason the collections only accept verts or segments, instead of being
able to just send it a patch or line object and have the collection
object extract the relevant data?
Jordan
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