Images can placed at arbitrary position (using the extent keyword). I think this is enough as far as you're careful with the aspect. Looking at the wikipedia example, I don't see any reason that this cannot be done with matplotlib. Regards,
-JJ On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Joshua Holbrook <josh.holbr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey y'all, > > I recently read about Chernoff faces > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernoff_face) in one of Edward Tufte's > books (great read btw) and would like to mess around with them in > matplotlib. My current approach is to generate the faces as images, > and then use them as markers on an x-y plot (like the example I > found in the Tufte book). I just realized, though, that I have no idea how to > incorporate images as position markers in matplotlib, or if it's even > possible. My search of the mpl docs didn't turn up much. > > Any ideas? > > > --Joshua Holbrook > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: > > Show off your parallel programming skills. > Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd > _______________________________________________ > Matplotlib-users mailing list > Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
