Re: [Matplotlib-users] scatter size argument

2007-04-06 Thread John Hunter
On 4/6/07, Eric Firing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The size argument, s, is given in squared points; that is, it is a > measure of area, not of linear dimensions. > > This strikes me as counterintuitive and not particularly useful. It > seems more natural that the size be a linear dimension; if

[Matplotlib-users] scatter size argument

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Firing
In the course of responding to a request regarding the color handling in Axes.scatter and pylab.scatter, I decided to raise a more general question for input from users: The scatter method has the following signature: def scatter(self, x, y, s=20, c='b', marker='o', cmap=None, norm=None,