2013/4/7 Kevin Hunter Kesling <kmhun...@ncsu.edu>
> Hullo Matplotlib List,
>
> I'm looking for a way to represent on an X-Y graph the fact that an axis
> does not start from the origin. When drawing by hand, I'll use a little
> zig-zag, lightning bolt, or slight space on the axis in question to
> represent this fact, just off from where the X and Y axis lines meet.
> How would I go about telling Matplotlib to do this? After two hours of
> perusing the Axes documentation, and tooling around in an IPython shell,
> I appear to be striking out.
>
> If you are using a monospaced font to view this email, this may
> illustrate the functionality for which I'm looking:
>
>
> 150 || * *
> 145 || * *
> 140 || * *
> 135 || *
> 130 ||
> /
> / <---- "zig zag" I want
> ||
> 0 --------------------------------
> 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
>
>
> Many thanks for any help,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Hi Kevin,
Have you given a look at this example:
http://matplotlib.org/examples/pylab_examples/broken_axis.html
Francesco
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