On 2/13/11 10:45 PM, Tom Flannaghan wrote: > Hi, > > I've written a script to roughly emulate the elegant streamline plots found in > Mathematica. The code is available at > http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/tjf37/streamplot.py and example plots at > http://www.atm.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/tjf37/streamlines1.png and > streamlines2.png. It's a pretty hacky script, but fast and fairly robust. If > anyone finds this script useful and has comments/suggestions, I'm happy to do > a > bit more work. > > It would also be helpful if anyone has suggestions on a particular issue I > had. > Currently, to plot variable-width lines (i.e. streamlines2.png) I use a plot > command for each line segment which is very slow and nasty. Is there a better > way I'm missing? > > Tom
Tom: This is really nice! I'd like to see some version of your code incorporated into matplotlib. Regarding your question about variable-width lines, I don't know of any way to do that - but perhaps someone with more detailed knowledge of matplotlib internals will comment. -Jeff -- Jeffrey S. Whitaker Phone : (303)497-6313 Meteorologist FAX : (303)497-6449 NOAA/OAR/PSD R/PSD1 Email : jeffrey.s.whita...@noaa.gov 325 Broadway Office : Skaggs Research Cntr 1D-113 Boulder, CO, USA 80303-3328 Web : http://tinyurl.com/5telg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
