I did some more digging and it looks like this changed with the
transforms.  curve4 is now being called instead of arc_to, which uses
beziers.

On Dec 9, 2007 10:11 AM, Charlie Moad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I found a great doc I am linking.  The 4 spline method we are using
> has an error tolerance of 2.7*10^-4, which I am pretty sure is coming
> into play here.  If we move to an 8 spline approach, it would reduce
> the error a few orders of magnitude.
>
> http://www.tinaja.com/glib/ellipse4.pdf
>
> - Charlie
>
>
>
> On Dec 8, 2007 9:09 AM, John Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Dec 7, 2007 6:02 PM, James Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > There appears to be an issue with the agg backend with how it is drawing
> > > ellipses (or maybe it is how matplotlib uses agg), but the attached script
> > > shows how a point, which should be coincident with the center circle, but 
> > > it
> > > is not.  The second plot shows the same data, but using a custom (and much
> > > slower) algorithm for drawing the ellipses, where the point is properly
> > > coincident.
> >
> > Thanks for the test case James -- I will try and sort this out ASAP.
> > Michael, do you see the same on the transforms branch?  The branch is
> > on a newer version of agg so if not, perhaps it is a simple matter of
> > upgrading agg on the trunk.  I'm travelling currently bt will be back
> > omorrow and ill look at this ASAP.
> >
> > JDH
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