Yannick Copin wrote: > Eric Firing wrote: >> Maybe I am misunderstanding, but the EllipseCollection in the example >> is panning and zooming as I expect. The shapes and orientations are >> staying the same while the scale expands and contracts with the x-axis. >> >> The problem is that the option you are looking for does not exist >> yet. I am not sure yet whether what you need is identical to an >> option I added to quiver (from which I partially derived >> EllipseCollection). I suspect it is. > > Thanks, I now understand better what is the main goal of > EllipseCollection: in a quiver-like use, you don't want indeed the > plotted ellipses to change size and/or orientation with scaling and > zooming. > >> Do you want width to scale with x and height to scale with y? And the >> angle to scale such that a 45-degree angle always corresponds to equal >> increments in x and in y, all in data units? > > Yes, in the context of error-ellipses, I would like to see my ellipses > scale with x and y, as they do when I plot them individually as Ellipse > patches (see example scripts, the blue ellipses are what I would like to > obtain using an EllipseCollection), something like "units='data'" in > EllipseCollection...
I agree, this really is needed, and I will put it in ASAP. It may take a little while, though, so in the meantime you are stuck with the individual patches. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, colocation Stay online with enterprise data centers and the best network in the business Choose flexible plans and management services without long-term contracts Personal 24x7 support from experience hosting pros just a phone call away. http://p.sf.net/sfu/theplanet-com _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
