Hi Brian, does ax.fill_between(np.linspace(0.0, 2*np.pi,100), np.ones(100)) do what you are after?
Kind regards Matthias On Wednesday 02 December 2009 16:42:16 Brian Larsen wrote: > Hello, > > this seems like it should be easy but I am beating my head on the wall > here. > > I am trying to fill in everything rad<=1 in a polar plot (this is a > spacecraft orbit trace and the circle is the Earth) and can't seem to get > it. > > from pylab import * > from matplotlib.patches import Circle > fig=figure() > ax = fig.add_subplot(111, polar=True) > ax.plot([2,2,2,2], [2,3,4,5]) > el = Circle((0,0), radius=1,facecolor='black', axes=ax) > ax.add_artist(el) > draw() > # also get the same result plotting with polar() > > and of course this dumbell looks nothing like the earth :) > > thanks much for any help, > > Brian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience, a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing. Attend in-depth sessions from your desk. Your couch. Anywhere. http://p.sf.net/sfu/redhat-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users