[Matplotlib-users] how to create a facecolors map?

2013-08-28 Thread vwf
Hello, I would like to create a surface with a color provided by an independent variable. The shape is defined by a matrix with the z-values. The color is a matrix of identical shape with floats. Can this be done? My experiment code is incomplete: I could not write anything useful. Can onyone hel

[Matplotlib-users] Seperate text from PGF Graphics?

2013-08-28 Thread Benjamin Isbarn
Hi, I'm currently working on my master thesis, which heavily involves creating plots and images. I recently found out about the pdf_tex feature of Inkscape, which basically creates a seperate LaTeX file besides the normal *.pdf output, to store the text. The advantage of this method is that th

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting large images

2013-08-28 Thread Štěpán Turek
Hi Chris, " I've used some hacky tricks to get around this, which mostly involve downsampling the image on the fly based on screen resolution. One such effort is at https://github.com/ChrisBeaumont/mpl-modest-image (https://github.com/ChrisBeaumont/mpl-modest-image). " I tried your code

Re: [Matplotlib-users] plotting large images

2013-08-28 Thread Štěpán Turek
Hi Martin, "Hi, I knw you asked for memory profiling but I could not resist and did CPU profiling on your testcase. I have attached some screenshots and in words: " thanks for these tips about profiling.  Stepan ---