Thanks Michael
It was odd that in all the matplotlib rc files the path.simplify was  
set to False but when running the program the state toggled True so I  
had to manually set it in the program.
Strange but that did the trick!
thanks again for your help!

On May 6, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Michael Droettboom wrote:

> It looks like you're hitting the well-known bug in the path  
> simplification algorithm.  You can turn it off be setting the  
> "path.simplify" rcParam to False.  (Or you can upgrade to SVN where  
> this has been fixed...)
>
> Mike
>
> da...@wemeasureit.com wrote:
>> I'm plotting  50,000 data point signal as a line plot  to the  
>> standard
>> matplotlib window and scaling the axis to the maximum value of the  
>> signal.
>> Depending on the size of the matplotlib window, the displayed graph
>> changes both the number of displayed peaks and their amplitude.  
>> Can anyone
>> help me  correctly display the data. ( do I need to turn off some
>> smoothing control which reduces the number of points actually  
>> displayed?)
>> here's the plot function:
>>
>> def plotsig(sig):
>>     plt.cla()
>>     plt.plot(sig[:,0],sig[:,1])
>>    plt.axis([np.min(sig[:,0]),np.max(sig[:,0]),np.min(sig[:, 
>> 1]),np.max(sig[:,1])])
>>     plt.savefig('sig.png')
>>     plt.show()
>>
>> Two fig attached.
>> thanks for any help
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> Space Telescope Science Institute
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