There was a thread called "Placing images on figures" with a bunch of approaches...
http://www.mail-archive.com/matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg17278.html On Sep 7, 2010, at 7 Sep, 2:34 PM, Joshua Holbrook 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 Chloe Lewis Ecosystem Sciences, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley 137 Mulford Hall Berkeley, CA 94720-3114 http://nature.berkeley.edu/~chlewis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
