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 >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --------- >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Matplotlib-users mailing list >> Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users >> > > -- > Michael Droettboom > Science Software Branch > Operations and Engineering Division > Space Telescope Science Institute > Operated by AURA for NASA > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users