On Dec 25, 2007 5:39 AM, Mark Bakker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tedd, Michael - > > Sorry to join this discussion late, but wouldn't it be easier to use a > representation of an ellipse in complex variables? That's what I have been > using and it seems pretty quick to me.
The main point we are discussion is not how to represent the ellipse, but what geometric primitives to use to render the ellipse. Earlier versions of mpl used a polygon, then we added support for a 4 spline approximation to reduce the error of the approximation. This too did not have sufficient accuracy, and so Michael added an 8 spline approximation (Ellipse) as well as an adaptive approximation (Arc). JDH ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
