Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib
per freem wrote: hi all, i am a *huge fan* of matplotlib and use it for all plotting. one feature that i would find extremely useful that i believe is missing (but am very open to being corrected in case i overlooked something) is a way to define the layout of complex subplots. by this i mean something like R's layout command, which allows you to nearly arbitrarily arrange the subplots of a figure. this command is much more general than subplot since it does not restrict you to square arrangements of figure subplots. for examples, check out these figures/examples: 1. source code of complex layout: http://rgraphics.limnology.wisc.edu/rmargins_layout.php (the associated graph it produces is here: http://rgraphics.limnology.wisc.edu/images/layouts/rmargins_layout_thumb.png) 2. a tutorial on complex layouts with this command: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/layout.html in particular, see: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/images/layout3a.png where a complex layout which is currently not possible with subplot is made. a command like R's layout would be a tremendously helpful addition to matplotlib, in my opinion. it will prevent the need for annoying manual postprocessing of figures into these layouts using tools like Illustrator, since these figures could be generated programmatically instead, which much more precision. as far as i know, this cannot be done in matplotlib right now, without plotting your own axes (using some combination of axes grid toolkit and raw axes plotting.) if anyone out there has written some kind of wrappers that do something like the layout command, i would love to know about it. if it's still in testing and not part of the current matplotlib, i'd be more than happy to beta test this for anyone and try it on many examples. Hi Per, I wrote two things that may be of interest to you. This first is mplsizer, based on the wx layout model, and works live (with a figure open in a GUI) as well as for saving to disk. See the demo directory for, well, some demos. I haven't been using this too much lately, but it still works as well as it ever did AFAIK. There is a trivial bit of documentation and a copy of the source at http://github.com/astraw/mplsizer The second is svg_stack. This is used as a post-processing step that requires saving my figures as svg files and then composing them with this tool. There is some minimal documentation and the source at http://github.com/astraw/svg_stack . The nice thing with svg_stack is that you can use svg files from other sources (i.e. not just matplotlib). Also, everything can be manually adjusted in Inkscape, which itself has nice command-line export to .png and .pdf capabilities. -Andrew -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: This first is mplsizer, based on the wx layout model, and works live (with a figure open in a GUI) as well as for saving to disk. See the demo directory for, well, some demos. I haven't been using this too much lately, but it still works as well as it ever did AFAIK. There is a trivial bit of documentation and a copy of the source at http://github.com/astraw/mplsizer Any interest in merging this in as an mpl_toolkit? Gaël -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib
Gael Varoquaux wrote: On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:32:27AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: This first is mplsizer, based on the wx layout model, and works live (with a figure open in a GUI) as well as for saving to disk. See the demo directory for, well, some demos. I haven't been using this too much lately, but it still works as well as it ever did AFAIK. There is a trivial bit of documentation and a copy of the source at http://github.com/astraw/mplsizer Any interest in merging this in as an mpl_toolkit? It already is. :) Any interest in writing docs and advertising it? -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
Re: [Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 07:54:18AM -0800, Andrew Straw wrote: Any interest in merging this in as an mpl_toolkit? It already is. :) Me dig hole and hide. Any interest in writing docs and advertising it? Well, first I'll use it :). I can advertise if I and up using it a lot. Gaël -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
[Matplotlib-users] feature discussion/request: a 'layout' command for matplotlib
hi all, i am a *huge fan* of matplotlib and use it for all plotting. one feature that i would find extremely useful that i believe is missing (but am very open to being corrected in case i overlooked something) is a way to define the layout of complex subplots. by this i mean something like R's layout command, which allows you to nearly arbitrarily arrange the subplots of a figure. this command is much more general than subplot since it does not restrict you to square arrangements of figure subplots. for examples, check out these figures/examples: 1. source code of complex layout: http://rgraphics.limnology.wisc.edu/rmargins_layout.php (the associated graph it produces is here: http://rgraphics.limnology.wisc.edu/images/layouts/rmargins_layout_thumb.png) 2. a tutorial on complex layouts with this command: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/layout.html in particular, see: http://www.statmethods.net/advgraphs/images/layout3a.png where a complex layout which is currently not possible with subplot is made. a command like R's layout would be a tremendously helpful addition to matplotlib, in my opinion. it will prevent the need for annoying manual postprocessing of figures into these layouts using tools like Illustrator, since these figures could be generated programmatically instead, which much more precision. as far as i know, this cannot be done in matplotlib right now, without plotting your own axes (using some combination of axes grid toolkit and raw axes plotting.) if anyone out there has written some kind of wrappers that do something like the layout command, i would love to know about it. if it's still in testing and not part of the current matplotlib, i'd be more than happy to beta test this for anyone and try it on many examples. thanks very much for your help. -- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev ___ Matplotlib-users mailing list Matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/matplotlib-users
