A reimplementation of the quiver command has been committed to svn. It is temporarily accessible as "quiver2" so as not to interfere with the original quiver, and in examples there is a quiver2_demo.py. The API differs from that of the original quiver. See the docstring for details. Since the earlier version that I sent out as a diff, I have removed the "C" kwarg (unnecessary, given the function signature) and added the "minlength" kwarg; if the rendered arrow is less than this length in units of the shaft width, then it is replaced with a hexagon of this diameter. Also, the dpi bug that John found is fixed.
Some time before the next release I would like to replace the present quiver with quiver2. If necessary I can use the same trick as for colorbar, in which the default is the new version, but the presence of a kwarg exclusive to the old version triggers use of the old version with a deprecation warning. I would like to be able to establish a schedule for actually removing such deprecated code, however. Suggestions for improvements in the API or other aspects are welcome. On my todo list are a "key" method to draw a labeled scale arrow, and an ellipse-drawing capability. The "scatter" command is quite similar and, like the proposed "ellipses", could take advantage of code presently in the Quiver class, so I will consider doing such a consolidation, using a base class or a mixin to factor out as much common functionality as possible. I have looked briefly at basemap. It looks like quiver2 will fit in OK with small changes; a bit more work might be needed to support some of the scaling options in quiver2. In any case, whenever quiver2 does replace quiver I want to make sure that basemap is ready so that the new quiver works well with it; for my own work, velocity vectors on maps are central. Eric _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
