Andrew Straw wrote:
> John Hunter wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 10:21 AM, Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I have addressed what I think is a long-standing wart: zorder is mostly
>>> ignored for imshow(). (See e.g.
>>> http://old.nabble.com/Re%3A--Matplotlib-users--imshow-zorder-tt19047314.html#a19047314
>>> ) The question is whether I should apply the attached patch.
>>>
I went ahead and committed this patch to the trunk in r7950.
Here's the CHANGELOG entry:
2009-11-10 Single images, and all images in renderers with
option_image_nocomposite (i.e. agg, macosx and the svg
backend when rcParams['svg.image_noscale'] is True), are
now drawn respecting the zorder relative to other
artists. (Note that there may now be inconsistencies across
backends when more than one image is drawn at varying
zorders, but this change introduces correct behavior for
the backends in which it's easy to do so.)
Jae Joon raised a couple of concerns:
1) the patch would introduces inconsistent behavior between backends --
namely that PS and other backends, when given more than one image, would
"composite" (or rasterize) all images and stick them underneath
everything else. Agg would have proper zordering between images and
other artists.
2) there is doubt about the utility of such functionality. Jae-Joon says
"I think it is often sufficient if we draw images at the bottom but
respect zorders among images".
As for #1, it seems to me this is simply a bug/limitation with the
compositing functionality (e.g. the PS backend). The SVG backend has the
possibility to turn compositing on or off based on the svg.image_noscale
rcParam, and perhaps other backends could grow something similar. I
can't see why this patch -- that specifically solves the bug/limitation
in the backends where its easily possible -- should be held back due to
this.
As for #2, perhaps my use case will be convincing -- I'm trying to draw
reconstructions of various experimental setups, and the easiest way to
do this is to create texture-mapped rectangles in which I can control
the zorder -- a single texture may need to be over some artists but
under others. Perhaps there's an easier way to achieve this, but I'm not
aware of it.
Jae Joon has also stated that he's OK with the patch, so I went ahead
and committed it. In light of all this, please let me know if you still
have concerns, and hopefully they can be addressed. In the worst case,
we can back this patch out.
-Andrew
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