Jeff Whitaker wrote: > Ryan May wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've got (what seems to me) a nice clean, self-contained >> implementation of wind barbs plots. I'd like to see if I can get this >> into matplotlib, as it would be very useful to the meteorology >> community. I've borrowed heavily from Quiver for rounding out rough >> edges (like multiple calling signatures) as for templates for >> documentation. The base implementation, though, seems much simpler >> (thanks to Mike's transforms) and is based more on scatter. >> >> Right now it monkey-patches Axes so that it can be a stand-alone file. >> Just running the file should give a good example of the expected output. >> >> My only concern up front is if a new axes method is appropriate, since >> this is somewhat domain specific. But I'd like to at least get the >> new Collections class included, since otherwise, I have no idea how to >> get this distributed to the community at large. >> >> I welcome any comments/criticism to help improve this. >> >> Ryan >> > Ryan: This looks great! I fixed one typo (the "length" keyword was > mis-identified as "scale" in the docstring) and replace your example > with an adaption of the quiver_demo.py basemap example.
Thanks. When this finally lands in matplotlib svn, do you need me to do the patch to add it to basemap? If so, anything I should know? Or will you just take care of it? > I noticed that ticks on the barbs are so close that they are hard to > discern unless the linewidth is reduced. I wonder if the spacing of the > ticks could be added as a keyword, perhaps as a fraction of the wind > barb length? It's already coded up as such, it's just a matter of exposing it as a keyword. I didn't do it already because I didn't want the alphabet soup. But I guess since I'm already parsing the **kw dictionary, popping off a few more values isn't too bad... > > This will be a wonderful addition to matplotlib. Thanks! > > -Jeff > > P.S. eagerly awaiting your Skew-T implementation .... You and every other met I know...It's a good thing I want this so badly, because having struggled with it I understand why there's so few implementations out there. Wind barbs actually came as a nice little distraction to learn a bit of the matplotlib API before trying to get the Skew-T right again. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
