You can set the rcParam "path.simplify" to False to turn off this behavior.
However, the goal is that the simplification is not noticable -- if it is that may be a bug. Are you able to share your data so I can look into this further? Cheers, Mike Will Grover wrote: > Hello matplotlib users, > > I'm using matplotlib to plot some large data sets (1 million x,y > pairs) and I've noticed that, when zoomed out to view the whole plot, > it looks as if only every Nth point is being plotted, maybe in an > attempt to improve plotting performance in complex plots. When I zoom > in I can see points that were clearly missing in the zoomed-out view. > Is there any way to override this so that the plot really does show > all the points, regardless of zoom? I've included my really simple > plotting code below, and I'm using the "scipy superpack" (python 2.5, > matplotlib-0.98.6) on an OS X 10.5.7 Mac. > > Many thanks for any help! > > --Will > > > > import pylab > import smr > import sys > for freqs, stats, chronos in smr.loadData(sys.argv[1:]): # loads data > into numpy.arrays > pylab.plot(chronos, freqs) > pylab.show() > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT > is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet > the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & > iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian > Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > -- Michael Droettboom Science Software Branch Operations and Engineering Division Space Telescope Science Institute Operated by AURA for NASA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now for Creativity and Technology (CaT), June 3rd, NYC. CaT is a gathering of tech-side developers & brand creativity professionals. Meet the minds behind Google Creative Lab, Visual Complexity, Processing, & iPhoneDevCamp as they present alongside digital heavyweights like Barbarian Group, R/GA, & Big Spaceship. http://p.sf.net/sfu/creativitycat-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
