Dear Mike, thanks a lot for the information.
Best wishes, Federico Michael Droettboom wrote: > Unfortunately, clip paths are not implemented for the Agg backend. > Other backends (Ps, Pdf, Svg) may work, but I haven't tried that in a > while. > > I've spent a few tries trying to come up with the magic Agg > incantation to make this work. It's not really documented in Agg, but > it should theoretically be possible. It would take someone probably > to dig through the Agg source code and figure it out. Any volunteers? ;) > > Cheers, > Mike > > Federico Milano wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I am a new user of python and of matplotlib, so, please excuse me if I >> am asking a trivial question. >> >> I am trying to use the funciton imshow to plot a temperature map of the >> voltage levels of an electrical grid. After creating the grid data >> using "meshgrid" and "griddata" functions, "imshow" works nicely and >> fills up the whoe axes box. >> >> Since, I also have the border line of the electrical grid (in the form >> of a closed polygon coordinates), my next step is to clip the >> temperature map using this polygon as a patch. Thus, I have created a >> Path instance with the polygon coordinates, subsequently, a PathPatch >> instance, say "patch". >> >> Finally, I call the imshow function using the Artist options >> "clip_on=True" and "clip_path=patch". I was expecting that imshow would >> have filed up only the region inside the polygon, but imshow is still >> mapping the full figure axis box, i.e., the plots with and without the >> clip_path option are identical. >> >> What am I missing or doing wrong? >> >> Thank you very much in advance for any help, >> >> Best wishes, >> >> Federico >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> 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-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
