Erik, I don't know of any solution with the old version, but there is a new version of quiver in svn; with it, your example produces ftp://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/pub/outgoing/q.png
Eric Erik Meyer wrote: > When I do a plot with quiver, I get very fat vectors - the arrow head > length is about 0.1 times the total height of the plot. If I do the > following plot: > > from pylab import * > t=[-0.9,-0.7,-0.5,-0.3,-0.1,0.1,0.3,0.5,0.7,0.9] > x,y=meshgrid(t,t) > axis('equal') > quiver(x,y,-y,x) > show() > > - it is very difficult to see the single vectors because they are > overlapping. I have tried different values of "width" in the call to > quiver (e.g. width=0.1), but this has no effect. > > I am using Windows XP, Python 2.4.3 - Enthought Edition 1.0.0 and > matplotlib ver. 0.87.3 - but I saw the same problem in an earlier > windows installation. > > /Erik Meyer > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users