[matplotlib-devel] idea for a matplotlib figure contest (in memoriam John Hunter)

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Straw
Hi all, Shocked by news of John Hunter's untimely severe health problems and now death, I have been thinking about what we could do as a community to 1) fuel matplotlib to further heights and 2) give everyone, but especially John's family, some appreciation for how wide, and ongoing, his impact

Re: [matplotlib-devel] idea for a matplotlib figure contest (in memoriam John Hunter)

2012-08-30 Thread Phil Elson
What a great idea! Perhaps we could arrange judging at the annual SciPy conference (or similar) with printouts of all the submissions. This would be a great opportunity for everybody in the community to see the broad and diverse usage of matplotlib globally, and an even greater opportunity to refle

[matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Patch: set capsize of errorbar via matplotlibrc

2012-08-30 Thread Hans Dembinski
Dear developers, I submitted a patch a few weeks ago that I think would be useful to have in the matplotlib, but I didn't get any response. I use the library extensively for science work and would like to be able to contribute to this great project. Since I didn't get any responses, I would

Re: [matplotlib-devel] idea for a matplotlib figure contest (in memoriam John Hunter)

2012-08-30 Thread Michael Droettboom
Yes, this is a great idea, and I think SciPy is a great forum for it. I'll coordinate with next year's organizers and see if we can't add this as a new category along with the paper submissions. Mike On 08/30/2012 04:58 AM, Phil Elson wrote: What a great idea! Perhaps we could arrange judging

Re: [matplotlib-devel] possible bug in quiver

2012-08-30 Thread David Raymond
Eric, OK, that seems to work. I tried something with scale_units earlier without success, but I must have been doing something wrong. Thanks for the help. Dave > On 2012/08/29 10:07 AM, David Raymond wrote: > > > > I think that I have found a serious bug in vector plotting (quiver) > > wh

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Patch: set capsize of errorbar via matplotlibrc

2012-08-30 Thread Eric Firing
On 2012/08/29 11:57 PM, Hans Dembinski wrote: > Dear developers, > > I submitted a patch a few weeks ago that I think would be useful to have > in the matplotlib, but I didn't get any response. I use the library > extensively for science work and would like to be able to contribute to > this great

Re: [matplotlib-devel] Fwd: Patch: set capsize of errorbar via matplotlibrc

2012-08-30 Thread Benjamin Root
On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 5:57 AM, Hans Dembinski wrote: > Dear developers, > > I submitted a patch a few weeks ago that I think would be useful to have > in the matplotlib, but I didn't get any response. I use the library > extensively for science work and would like to be able to contribute to > t