Re: [Matplotlib-users] How to create 3D plots?

2010-03-16 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, Unfortunately, the mplot3D page on the SciPy cookbook is not up to date. The 3D code in mplot3d has been moved to a toolkit and needs to be imported as is seen in the examples found here: http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/mplot3d/index.html So: Any idea how to create a simple

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Adding a plot within a plot

2010-03-15 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, This is usually done by using several calls to axes, specifying the coordinates of the different plots in the figure. The plot coordinates are in the range 0..1 times 0..1. An example is provided here http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/examples/pylab_examples/axes_demo.html with two

Re: [Matplotlib-users] how to reduce width of figure border ?

2010-03-12 Thread Pierre de Buyl
change line 29 to: left, bottom, width, height = 0.1, 0.07, 1., 0.84 # values in 0-1 relative figure coordinates -- allow space on left for colorbar it works on my machine (python 2.5 and mpl 0.99, mac os X 10.4). Pierre Le 11 mars 10 à 23:36, Jim Vickroy a écrit : Hello, The attached

Re: [Matplotlib-users] finish. now improvement - help

2010-02-19 Thread Pierre de Buyl
add import numpy at the beginning of your code. Then, y1=[Decimal('0.3041997084285048793446312110'), Decimal ('0.3041811120982812429734672735'), Decimal ('0.3041586008929715390350375366'), Decimal ('0.08256793883349254633032840545'), Decimal ('0.08255838341506859117962741714')] (just a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] matplotlib axis define

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, It is not clear what exactly does not work in your file. I assumed it was the logarithmic scaling in x. Here is the code to produce that. A complete documentation is available on http:// matplotlib.sourceforge.net/ , you might be especially interested by the examples

Re: [Matplotlib-users] vector EPS

2010-01-21 Thread Pierre de Buyl
I believe that MPL produces vector files. If you want to check by yourself I suggest that you zoom at will on an eps file. If you cannot observe rasterization artifacts it should be right. There is a rasterized option that will affect part of a plot but will leave the text and axes

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Font size on an axis

2010-01-21 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, What I do is to set it _before_ plotting through the rcParams. rcParams['xtick.labelsize']=24 There is also the possiblity to change that property afterwards with an argument to xticks. xticks(fontsize=24) Pierre Le 21 janv. 10 à 22:36, Brian Larsen a écrit : How does one set the

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [matplotlib-users] linear regression functions?

2009-12-30 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, Numpy is capable of simple fitting of polynomials, see for a definition and an example: http://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.polyfit.html Alternatively, there is an entry in the SciPy Cookbook: http:// www.scipy.org/Cookbook/FittingData Regards, Pierre Le 30

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Regression in scatter plot?

2009-12-10 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, According to http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/api/ pyplot_api.html#matplotlib.pyplot.scatter , the keyword argument that takes an array to specify the colors of the individual markers is c. color is interpreted as a color to give to all markers at once. The following works on my

Re: [Matplotlib-users] 3D

2009-12-07 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, The Axes3D constructor accepts the keywords azim and elev to set the viewpoint of the figure. As for the title, I could not find information in the examples or the api, so I suggest to add text with the text method. This solution lacks an automatic placement for the title, however.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] What's Wrong with this Histogram?

2009-11-30 Thread Pierre de Buyl
the input as already binned? For example, if I have [10, 7, 5], I want to see a histogram of three bars, one at x =0 of height 10, one at x=1 of height 6, and 2 of height 5. x might be some other numbers like 18.2, 46.3 and 60.1. Pierre de Buyl wrote: Hello, hist takes the raw data

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Newbie] question concerning color mapping

2009-11-28 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, the np.random.randn() functions returns a list (or an array if given appropriate arguments) of normal distributed numbers. If x and y are also of length 100, each couple (x[i],y[i]) will be assigned a size size[i] and a color colours[i]. This happens not at all because of magic, but

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing problems

2009-11-02 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, There are multiple versions still existing on my computer. How can I clean up and install the latest version? Thank you all so much You need to check the different paths accessed by Python. import sys print sys.path and remove the possible matplotib files in these paths.

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Drawing a single contour line

2009-11-02 Thread Pierre de Buyl
From memory, you just need to make a length one list contour(z, [i]) Pierre Le 2 nov. 09 à 22:19, Brendan Arnold a écrit : Hi there, I can draw a single contour line in MATLAB using contour(z, [i i]) however, contour(z, [i, i]) using matplotlib gives an error. In fact any plot that

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Installing matplotlib on mac os 10.6 (Snow Leopard)?

2009-10-14 Thread Pierre de Buyl
Hello, First, make sure that you have installed the Apple Developer Tools, and the BSD components from the DVDs OS X. Then, please indicate your version of python, and of numpy, and give the installation log. Pierre Le 13 oct. 09 à 19:14, William Carithers a écrit : I've not been able