Hi, I would like to show color maps of various shapes such as hexagons or squares. I've been able to do this with the scatter function but I'm having trouble with the size argument. I always have to adjust the size of my window until the shapes line up just how I want them to.
I realize size is specified in points^2, and that my figures default to 80 DPI and that the default figure size is 8" x 6", which should translate to 640x480. What I can't figure out is how to convert any of these to the data axis. I want to have one square centered at (0.5,0.5) with a side-length of 1 that exactly touches a square at (1.5,0.5), but to do this, I have to guess and check until I zero in on a size=2000. The square root of that is 44.72 points. Where the heck does this come from? How can I choose my marker size automatically based on the figure size and DPI so that my data looks right? It's a problem when I want to make lots of colormaps in subfigures, then I have to guess and check until the size is right. It's especially difficult with hexagon maps! Anyway, I've struggled with this long enough. I read these pages but they didn't help enough. http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/AdjustingImageSize http://www.scipy.org/Cookbook/Matplotlib/Transformations Any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance! -Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
