Thank you very much. You have just made me a much happier grad student. I hope this answer gets added to the FAQ! -- Randolph Fritz design machine group, architecture department, university of washington rfr...@u.washington.edu -or- rfritz...@gmail.com
On 2010-03-02 18:23:24 -0800, Jae-Joon Lee said: > The current implementation of PolarAxes does not support that. > However, you can workaround this easily using a custom axes. > > In http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/polar_demo.html > > Instead of > > ax = fig.add_axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8], polar=True, axisbg='#d5de9c') > > use following code > > from matplotlib.projections.polar import PolarAxes > from matplotlib.transforms import Affine2D > > class PolarAxes2(PolarAxes): > def PolarTransform(self): > return Affine2D().translate(-.5*np.pi,0) + PolarAxes.PolarTransform() > > ax = PolarAxes2(fig, [0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8], axisbg='#d5de9c') > ax = fig.add_axes(ax) > > Regards, > > -JJ > > > On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 8:44 PM, R Fritz <rfr...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > You can see an example on the second page of > > <http://lightolier.com/MKACatpdfs/8011.PDF>. Scroll down. The plot is > > next to the table titled, "candlepower summary." It's a quadrant > > rather than a full circle, and it's clipped to a box, but it's still a > > polar plot. > > > > The only problem I have with what matplotlib does is that it seems > > determined to put zero at the right, rather than at the bottom. I want > > to turn the axis 90 degrees. > > > > Randolph > > > > On 2010-03-02 14:50:51 -0800, Jae-Joon Lee said: > > > >> Do you have any link to an example plot? > >> I googled it but not much luck. > >> Is it like a polar plot without the bottom half? > >> > >> Regards, > >> > >> -JJ > >> > >> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 1:48 AM, R Fritz <rfr...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >> > I'd like to be able to generate type C photometry plots with > >> > matplotlib. The standard co-ordinate system for these has 0 degrees at > >> > the bottom (nadir) of the plot, with values increasing > >> > counterclockwise. Is there anyway I can transform the co-ordinates that > >> > matplotlib uses to do this? > >> > -- > >>> Randolph Fritz > >>> > design machine group, architecture department, university of washington > >>> > rfr...@u.washington.edu -or- rfritz...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
