Jesper,
For performance reasons, what _make_barbs() does is create a (almost
degenerate) polygon for each wind barb in the data set. The barbs are drawn
such that y is along the barb, and x is perpendicular to the barb; the barb
is then rotated as appropriate. The first point in the polygon is IIR
If you don't get an error message, and you don't get a window, it probably
means you matplotlib is defaulting to the Agg backend. The backend is set
by default in site-packages/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc . What does
this report?:
import matplotlib
print(matplotlib.rcParams['backend'])
On my
Hi matplotlib users
I am developing an application for showing weather forecasts using
matplotlib. We use wind barbs for displaying wind forecasts:
http://api.fcoo.dk/ifm-maps/greenland/?zoom=6&lat=62&lon=-45&layer=FCOO%20Standard&overlays=TTFFF
This is fine for our "power users". We
