On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 3:35 PM, David Carmean <dlc-...@halibut.com> wrote: > > Has anyone seen/created any UML models/diagrams for Matplotlib? > > I'm currently doing so to help me understand how to use it in an > application, but wondered if somebody has already built the wheel > that I'm trying to invent. > > One of the things I'm trying to figure out is whether I can build > a graphic in "reverse order". The standard M.O. seems to be to > traverse a self-building tree by invoking convenience methods on > each new child, Figure-->Subplot-->plot_date, etc. > > What I'm looking to do is build from the bottom up, e.g. create a line > or scatter plot instance *first*, then append that to the children of > an existing Axes instance, which is in-turn appended to the childrend of > a Figure instance.
Certainly things like lines, collections can be added to existing axes (and don't need one around to be created). This is actually what's used under the hood. You *should* also be able to create an axes object and then set its figure, but I've never personally done it. What you really want to look at are a lot of Axes methods: set_figure() add_artists() add_collection() add_line() Ryan -- Ryan May Graduate Research Assistant School of Meteorology University of Oklahoma ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
