Paul Kienzle wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Michael Droettboom wrote: > >> Paul Kienzle wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> We found we needed to draw a partial ring, but didn't see one in >>> patches.py. >>> >>> Attached is a generalization of Wedge to accept an inner and an >>> outer radius. >>> >>> Should I add this to patches? >> Looks like a useful feature to me. Could be used for doing these >> sort of "hierarchical pie chart" graphs: >> >> http://linux.byexamples.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/baobab.png > > That's pretty, though I have no idea what it is supposed to represent. It's the size of directories in a directory structure. Each ring is a different depth of nesting. Useful wherever you have a heirarchical percentages... 50% of %40 of %30... Of course, suffers from the same usability problems of pie charts. I'm not seriously suggesting we pursue this... Your Ring class just reminded me of it.
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