Andrew Straw wrote: > Hi all, > > I've added some functionality to my copy hexbin, and I thought I'd > bounce it off folks (esp. Michael) to see if it seems like a good idea > to add it to MPL. > > Here's the beginning of the docstring of the new version. What I've > added is the optional argument "C" -- inspired by scatter's "c" argument. > >> call signature:: >> >> hexbin(x, y, C = None, gridsize = 100, bins = None, >> xscale = 'linear', yscale = 'linear', >> cmap=None, norm=None, vmin=None, vmax=None, >> alpha=1.0, linewidths=None, edgecolors='none' >> reduce_C_function = np.mean, >> **kwargs) >> >> Make a hexagonal binning plot of *x* versus *y*, where *x*, >> *y* are 1-D sequences of the same length, *N*. If *C* is None >> (the default), this is a histogram of the number of occurences >> of the observations at (x[i],y[i]). >> >> If *C* is specified, it specifies values at the coordinate >> (x[i],y[i]). These values are accumulated for each hexagonal >> bin and then reduced according to *reduce_C_function*, which >> defaults to numpy's mean function (np.mean). (If *C* is >> specified, it must also be a 1-D sequence of the same length >> as *x* and *y*.) > > What do you think? I've also implemented a simple demo making use of > this functionality and an image of the output of the demo. For my own > selfish reasons, I'd love if we could stick this in 0.98.3, but I'm also > happy to hold off to get the release out the door. > > -Andrew
Andrew, That sounds like a nice addition, and one that does not interfere in any way with the original hexbin functionality. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
