Jeff Whitaker wrote:
> If I draw two images with imshow, then set_zorder for one of them to be
> higher than the other, should that one be the one that displays?
Jeff,
It is a wart. Images are handled separately from other artists, and
always drawn first, either as a composite or in the order in which they
were added to the list. Here is the relevant code in the Axes.draw()
method:
if len(self.images)<=1 or renderer.option_image_nocomposite():
for im in self.images:
im.draw(renderer)
else:
# make a composite image blending alpha
# list of (mimage.Image, ox, oy)
mag = renderer.get_image_magnification()
ims = [(im.make_image(mag),0,0)
for im in self.images if im.get_visible()]
im = mimage.from_images(self.bbox.height()*mag,
self.bbox.width()*mag,
ims)
im.is_grayscale = False
l, b, w, h = self.bbox.get_bounds()
# composite images need special args so they will not
# respect z-order for now
renderer.draw_image(l, b, im, self.bbox)
Maybe the set_zorder method for images should raise a warning, since it
can't do what one might reasonably expect.
Mike may be able to comment on the prospects for removing this wart at
some point in the transforms branch; he is looking at related questions
right now.
Eric
>
> for example, with
>
> from pylab import *
> delta = 0.025
> x = y = arange(-3.0, 3.0, delta)
> X, Y = meshgrid(x, y)
> Z1 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
> Z2 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
> Z = Z2-Z1 # difference of Gaussians
> im2 = imshow(Z2, interpolation='bilinear', cmap=cm.gray,
> origin='lower', extent=[-3,3,-3,3])
> im2.set_zorder(2)
> im1 = imshow(Z1, interpolation='bilinear', cmap=cm.gray,
> origin='lower', extent=[-3,3,-3,3])
> im1.set_zorder(1)
> show()
>
> I expected Z2 to be plotted, but I actually see Z1. In fact, I always
> see the last one that was plotted, regardless of what I set the zorder to.
>
> I'm using the latest SVN, with GTKAgg.
>
> -Jeff
>
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