On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:28 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.r...@ou.edu> wrote: > Markus, > > That is good to know that it has been fixed. As for the difference in > pcolor and pcolormesh, I think it has to do with the fact that pcolormesh is > composed of many lines while pcolor is composed of many polygons. It is > probably more efficient to rasterize polygons than lines.
To be blunt, this makes no sense whatsoever. First, pcolormesh and pcolor differ in that it pcolor uses a generic PolyCollection to draw the quads, while pcolormesh uses a quadmesh object, which can be more efficient at the cost of generality, as it only needs to render a set of identical quads. Second, if you're talking rasterized drawing, in the end what gets written to a file is a 2D array of RGBA values. It doesn't matter what you use to produce the results: identical image on the screen -> identical array in file. It's possible that there are slight differences that you can't really see that produce different arrays, but that won't cause a factor of 8 difference in size. My guess is that pcolormesh isn't rasterizing properly. Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-devel mailing list Matplotlib-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-devel
