Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew McLean wrote: [...] > Dorling cartograms described here (with an example near the bottom of > the page): > > http://www.ncgia.ucsb.edu/projects/Cartogram_Central/types.html Thanks for the link. Eric > > Regards, > > Andrew --

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-02 Thread Andrew McLean
Eric Firing wrote: > Andrew McLean wrote: >> It all works. However, I saw in the API documentation (and the source) >> that there is a Circle object in patch. I was hoping that using this >> rather than polygons would give better quality output and possibly >> smaller files. Now I can instantiate i

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-02 Thread Eric Firing
Andrew McLean wrote: > I'm a new user of matplotlib (athough I have been using both Matlab and > Python for years). > > I have an application where I need to display data as a set of filled > circles. The centre and the radius of the circles are both specified in > data coordinates. The data point

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew McLean
Steve, I guess I should have highlighted the difference. For my application I need the circle radii to be given in data coordinates. For the curious, I'm plotting something very similar to Dorling Cartograms. I did look in the source of "scatter" for clues, but it uses a 20 sided polygon to a

Re: [Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-01 Thread Stephen George
Hi, being a newbie myself, .. I don't know if I'm misguiding you. But do wonder if you looked at the scatter command see scatter_demo2.py on http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html for an example It *seems* like it already does what you are trying to do?, maybe I'm missing something

[Matplotlib-users] Plotting filled circles

2007-07-01 Thread Andrew McLean
I'm a new user of matplotlib (athough I have been using both Matlab and Python for years). I have an application where I need to display data as a set of filled circles. The centre and the radius of the circles are both specified in data coordinates. The data points have an additional scalar attri