To emulate the current behavior (which doesn't try to interpolate
between points) you can pass "resolution=1" to the polar command. But I
agree with Eric -- it sounds like updating my resolve this issue.
Mike
Eric Firing wrote:
> Ng, Enrico wrote:
>
>> The rotation and resetting of the labels isn't a big issue.
>> The issues is when I reverse the direction. Matplotlib seems to only
>> want to plot in an anti-clockwise direction. I can transform the data
>> to be backwards so that it looks ok, however when it tries to connect
>> the start and end points, it goes back around and draws a circle instead
>> of just connecting the two points using a straight line.
>>
>
> What version of mpl are you using? This sounds like behavior that is
> not current.
>
> Eric
>
>
>> On Tuesday 21 April 2009 08:36:35 Michler, Matthias wrote:
>> Hi Enrico,
>>
>> I'm afraid that this functionality is missing in matplotlib, but I'm not
>> an
>> expert so there is still hope that this can be easily achieved.
>>
>> A work around, that comes to my mind is resetting the label values using
>> an
>> idea from another mail on this list
>> ( thetagrids( range(0,360,45), ('E', 'NE', 'N','NW', 'W', 'SW', 'S',
>> 'SE') ) )
>>
>> label_values = [item % 360 for item in range(90, -260, -45)]
>> thetagrids( range(0,360,45), label_values)
>>
>> and using some well defined (linear) transformation for plotting -
>> translating
>> your data to the actual tick positions and corresponding labels.
>>
>> best regards Matthias
>>
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