Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-03 Thread Rob Clewley
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 11:39 AM, John Hunter wrote: > Well, it is painfully slow, since it does everything in software, and there > are some corner cases where the zorder clipping is broken in the presence of > alpha transparency, and it doesn't do lighting, shadows, etc But it > does do eno

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-03 Thread Eric Bruning
> One of the mpl backends is svg; can you use something like Inkscape to > make the plot adjustments you are talking about? > > Eric [F] I'll second this recommendation - indeed, it's my default workflow (except that I use Illustrator). By definition, vector image formats contain all the data need

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Eric Firing wrote: > > > Would i be right in assuming that it would take roughly the same amount > of effort as writing a new backend? ie for each motplotlib action it would > need a function to store that action and a function to call that action > again. > > It i

Re: [matplotlib-devel] File format for plots

2009-03-03 Thread Ryan May
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Gael Varoquaux < gael.varoqu...@normalesup.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 01:49:38PM -0600, Ryan May wrote: > >Other than the automatic regeneration from latex, what you want sounds > >like what we already have: small python scripts. > > >In gener

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Jonathan Taylor wrote: > That sounds reasonable. Can I ask what it is that was primitive? > Having looked through the code I see that a few shortcuts were made to > minimize the amount of code written that makes it especially > susceptible to changes in the 2D cod

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-03 Thread Jonathan Taylor
That sounds reasonable. Can I ask what it is that was primitive? Having looked through the code I see that a few shortcuts were made to minimize the amount of code written that makes it especially susceptible to changes in the 2D code. That said, it seems like it was comparable functionally to ma

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Updating MPlot3D to a more recent matplotlib.

2009-03-03 Thread John Hunter
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Jonathan Taylor < jonathan.tay...@utoronto.ca> wrote: > Hi, > > I saw that 3D plotting was dropped from matplotlib since the last time > I used it. Unfortunately, it is pretty necessary for some of the work > I am doing. Thus, I have started the process of refact